Congress sent President Ford a $5.1 billion foreign aid appropriation that is $684 million below his request. Ford is expected to sign it. The appropriations include nearly $3 billion in military and security assistance for various nations, with about $1.7 going to Israel. Other programs funded include economic assistance, $1.1 billion; the Peace Corps and certain refugee programs, $982.4 million, and the Agency for International Development, $192 million.
House and Senate conferees, in one of three Congressional moves on nuclear policy, today informally approved an amendment that would prohibit by law the export of equipment to extract plutonium from used uranium. Plutonium is the raw material for nuclear weapons. Although shipments of such reprocessing equipment are already prohibited by Administration policy, the amendment is another indication of concern in Congress about the executive branch’s approach to reducing the spread of nuclear weapons. The amendment has been actively supported by Representatives Paul Findley, Republican of Illinois, and Clement J. Zablocki, Democrat of Illinois. Partly because Congress is now pushing for adjournment this weekend and partly because the amendment has been added to the controversial Export Administration Act, final approval remains far from certain, and a veto by President Ford thought possible.
The wife and the mother of a Soviet pilot who flew his jet fighter to Japan were brought forward today by the Soviet authorities to plead for him to come home without fear of punishment. At a news conference for Soviet and foreign reporters, Lyudmila Petrovna Belenko said she had been assured “at a sufficiently high level” that her husband, First Lieut. Viktor I. Belenko, would be forgiven, “even if he had made a mistake.” A Foreign Ministry spokesman present, Lev V. Krylov, added that “official guarantees have been given by competent Soviet bodies.” Mrs. Belenko and her mother‐in‐law, Lyudmila Stepanovna Belenko, said they sent a cablegram to President Ford 10 days ago asking him to return the pilot to his family.
The value of the British pound sterling against the U.S. dollar fell four cents, after falling two cents the day before, a 3½ percent decline in value over two days to only USD $1.63, its lowest level ever. The Bank of England moved to stem the decline after being contacted by Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The all-time low for the pound sterling would happen on February 25, 1985, when the closing value would be slightly more than $1.05 per £1. Prime Minister James Callaghan’s call for self-sacrifice in a speech to the Labor Party conference had not stopped the slide. Denis Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer, canceled his departure for a Commonwealth meeting in Hong Kong and remained to face the critical situation in London.
Eight supporters of the West German Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla movement were convicted in Hamburg of being members of a criminal association and received prison terms ranging from two to seven years. The accused, who included three women, also were found guilty of planning a bomb explosion, forging documents and violating the firearms law.
Four hooded gunmen kidnaped a wealthy businessman from a Cannes, France, villa after robbing his hosts of $200,000 in cash and jewels and making the kidnap victim sign a check for the equivalent of $400,000, plus several blank checks, police said. The victim, Francois Feriel, 60, was drugged and dragged from the home after the gunmen told his host, Francis Lopez, that he would be told later how much to fill in on the blank checks and where to take the money once cashed.
A Spanish youth, shot during clashes between riot police and protesters demanding total amnesty for political prisoners, died in a Madrid hospital, authorities said. Police said they did not use their firearms in the skirmishing. Meanwhile, about 430,000 Basque workers went out on strike on the first anniversary of the execution of two Basque separatists and three Maoists.
Israeli Arabs from the Galilee region quietly demonstrated today to back demands for the dismissal of an Israeli official who provoked a furor with his report recommending measures to curb the growth and influence of the country’s Arab population. Sympathy strikes for the Israeli Arabs were held by Palestinian Arabs in Israeli-occupied towns of the West Bank of the Jordan and in the Gaza Strip. There were violent incidents, mainly involving clashes between Israeli security forces and stone‐throwing bands of Arab youths in a number of towns, including Nablus, Hebron, Gaza and Tulkarm. The Israeli‐Arab protest, which took the form of a two‐hour work stoppage by municipal employees in many communities in the Galilee, was in sharp contrast with one last March 30, which erupted into riots that left six Israeli Arabs dead and scores injured. One resident of Nazareth contrasted today’s Israeli Arab protest with the Arab disturbances in the territories Israel has occupied since the 1967 war, and said it demonstrated that “Israeli Arabs are Israelis first and Arabs second although some Israeli Jews tend to put us in the same basket.”
The wife of a Soviet seaman who jumped ship in Sweden in 1974 stabbed herself in Moscow’s passport office after being refused permission to emigrate for the second time. Mrs. Lyudmila Agapov, 37, was taken to a hospital after she cut herself badly in the chest but her life was not in danger, her mother-in-law, Mrs. Antonina Agapov, told reporters. Since the defection of her husband, Valentin, an engineer on a Soviet merchant ship, Mrs. Agapov has been seeking exit visas for herself, her 13-year-old daughter and her mother-in-law.
The war in Lebanon stepped up with a tank-led offensive by the Syrian Army and local Christian militias against Palestinian units entrenched in mountain positions east of Beirut. Lebanon’s new president, Elias Sarkis, was said to be saddened by this dashing of his hopes for a period of calm for a conciliation effort. It was not clear from the front‐line reports today whether the Syrian offensive was just another application of pressure, as in the past, or whether it would turn into an attempt to put an end to the Lebanese crisis once and for all by, military means. Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, apparently felt it was a final offensive; he sent an emotional appeal to all Arab heads of states asking them for immediate intervention to prevent the Syrians from “liquidating the Palestinian resistant movement and striking at the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples.” The Syrian forces struck the Palestinian mountain positions from the east and the south. They made their main drive westward from the Christian city of Zahle in the Bekaa Valley against Palestinian units holding the mountain road to Tarshish and Ain Tura. Another drive originated in the area of Sofar on the Beirut‐Damascus highway and was aimed northwest at Hammana, Faluga and Ain Tura.
In addition to its military actions in Lebanon, Syria has begun to step up political pressure on Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to accept Syrian intervention and to give active support to the new Lebanese Government of President Elias Sarkis. The accelerated pressure was clearly reflected today in a long article in Al Baath, the newspaper of the governing Baath Party, headed by President Hafez al‐Assad, calling for a change in leadership in the P.L.O. The Syrian pressure has also taken the form or arrests of scores of Palestinians living in Syria and of close surveillance of the activities of Palestinian leaders in Damascus. Palestinian leaders here, while not so outspoken as those in Beirut, expressed disappointment and discouragement over the Syrian actions and pressures since Syria sent occupation forces—15,000 troops and 500 tanks—into Lebanon early in June.
Secretary Kissinger’s intervention ended a move in Congress to block the sale of aircraft missiles to Saudi Arabia. After he warned the Senate Foreign Relations committee that this action would undermine administration policy in the Middle East, the committee pigeonholed the measure, which it had approved 8-6 last Friday.
Former U.S. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger said he was impressed during a nearly three-hour meeting in Peking with Premier Hua Kuo-feng. At a farewell dinner, Schlesinger said some differences had surfaced but added, “That is only natural, even among friends. On some other points we half agree.”
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Joseph John Jova, said in Houston that the United States and Mexico can complete negotiations by December 1 on an exchange of prisoners. He said claims of mistreatment of U.S. prisoners in Mexican jails must be balanced against allegations of mistreatment of illegal Mexican aliens in the United States. Mexican President Luis Echeverria will be succeeded by Jose Lopez Portillo on December 1.
The South African radio said today that Cuban-led Angolan troops had wiped out whole villages in southern Angola and that hundreds of refugees were fleeing for their lives. Five hundred people have been reported murdered since the weekend by “pillaging” troops, it said. More than 1,000 refugees have swarmed across the border into South‐West Africa since the weekend, the state‐owned radio added. In Windhoek, capital of South‐West Africa it was believed that Angolan Government forces were engaged in an operation to clear southern Angola of guerrilla units.
The Rhodesian Government today challenged the reported comments of an American State Department official who suggested that aspects of the peace settlement outlined here last week by Prime Minister Ian D. Smith were less than hard‐and-fast, take‐it‐or‐leave‐it propositions. Mr. Smith asked the British Government today to send a representative to Rhodesia to resolve misunderstandings and to pave the way for peace talks. At issue is the reported view of William D. Rogers, the Deputy Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, that aspects of the structure and composition of the biracial interim government described by Mr. Smith Friday were negotiable issues rather than final terms of an agreement. In his comments Mr. Rogers declared that the questioning of these points by the five African Presidents who met Sunday in Lusaka, Zambia, did not constitute a rejection of the settlement package.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today that progress toward the opening of negotiations between Rhodesian blacks and whites would be made rapidly and that “within a week or so I would think that this would become evident.” Speaking to reporters after a closeddoor session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Kissinger said, “All parties have expressed their willingness, and indeed their eagerness, to get the negotiations going soon.”
Zambia urged the Security Council today to consider mandatory sanctions against South Africa because of its refusal to yield control of South-West Africa, or Namibia. The call for punitive measures was made by Dunstan Kamana, Zambia’s chief delegate. Mr. Kamana also is president of the 25‐member United Nations Council for Namibia, established in 1966 to take over administration of the territory from South Africa. The demand for sanctions was also pressed by Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South‐West African People’s Organization, a leading nationalist organization that has been recognized by the United Nations as the “authentic” representative of the people of the territory.
Jimmy Carter’s new style in campaign speaking was unveiled in a stump speech in Evansville, Indiana, using broader populist attacks on President Ford in evangelistic tones. Apparently he had been fired by an enthusiastic crowd response to tougher language in Portland, Oregon, and he bore down on Mr. Ford’s admitted golfing association with a lobbyist from United States Steel Company. Those familiar with Mr. Carter’s 20‐month pursuit of the Presidency immediately realized that something of political interest was happening when the former Georgia Governor displayed an unaccustomed tone of sarcasm, saying, “I think you always say something good about your opponent. President Ford exemplifies the leadership of the Republican Party.” The sentence was unremarkable but the tone of Mr. Carter’s voice brought chuckles and applause from a packed auditorium of Democratic partisans. Mr. Carter went on to say that the President “stands in the great tradition of Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon.”
President Ford’s spokesman at the White House said that as a congressman Mr. Ford had been a golfing guest of a number of major corporations besides United States Steel. He said that Mr. Ford had stopped accepting such invitations after he became Vice President in 1973. He emphasized that Mr. Ford felt he had lived up to the spirit of the House Code of Ethics of 1968 forbidding acceptance of gifts of monetary value from anyone with an interest in current legislation.
Republican members of a Senate interior subcommittee have concluded that President Ford’s former campaign manager, Howard H. Callaway, used “very poor judgment” in his alleged efforts to expand a Colorado ski resort during earlier service as secretary of the Army, Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-Oregon) said. Last week the four Republican members objected to a 250-page report, to be released Friday, approved by the five Democratic members. Hatfield said the report suggested that Callaway had used undue pressure. It has been alleged that Callaway tried to reverse a 1975 Forest Service recommendation against letting the ski resort, in which Callaway had a financial interest, use more federal land. The recommendation was later reversed.
For the last two days, Senator Robert J. Dole, the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, has been crisscrossing Illinois and Ohio, two states vital to President Ford’s election strategy, taking some of his sharpest digs at Jimmy Carter, the Democratic Presidential nominee. Avoiding the major metropolitan areas, Mr. Dole has concentrated on the farming districts and on smaller cities that normally provided more support for the Republicans, campaigning not only in this old southeastern Ohio town but also in Springfield and Newark, Ohio, and appearing in Rock Island, Quincy and Decatur in Illinois.
Senate-House conferees reached a compromise on a bill to continue the multimillion-dollar program of federal grants to state and local governments to combat crime. The measure would extend the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration for three years beyond October 1 and authorize appropriations of $880 million the first year and $800 million in each of the next two years. The bill also would limit the FBI director to a single 10-year term.
Indicators are sharply down after 17 consecutive monthly increases, the Department of Commerce reported in its index for August of future economic trends. The 1.5 percent drop in the leading indicators fueled the recent judgment of some economists that there is a worrisome “pause” in the current economic recovery. Others were not upset.
A national organization that opposes any change in the existing Federal abortion rules said yesterday that it would sue to block any restriction on the use of Medicaid money for abortions, as contained in legislation now awaiting action by President Ford. The restriction, in a $56 million appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare, would prohibit the use of Medicaid money for reimbursement of abortion costs except in cases in which the expectant mother’s life was threatened. The National Abortion Rights Action League, the organization threatening the legal action, contended this would discriminate against low‐income women by placing legal abortions beyond their economic reach.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission turned down a Ralph Nader Health Research Group request for a ban on smoke detectors containing radioactive material. “Your report is incomplete and reaches conclusions not justified by specific data and analyses,” the commission told the group. The Nader organization claimed there was a danger of radiation from ionization-type detectors that contain Americium 241. The commission said, however, that radiation was “very small and well within acceptable limits.” It added that a person was exposed to much more radiation on a round trip airplane flight across the nation.
Detroit’s first black mayor, Coleman Young, ousted Police Chief Philip Tannian and named Deputy Chief William Hart to replace him. Hart becomes the first black police chief in the city’s history. Tannian served as chief of the 5,000-member force for seven years and under two mayors. Problems apparently centered around a feud between Tannian and Executive Deputy Chief Frank A. Blount, the No. 2 man. Sources said Young had planned to replace them both before disclosure last month that Blount was the subject of a federal grand jury investigating narcotics. Tannian allegedly knew about the investigation but had not advised Young of what was going on.
Under new fundraising laws limiting the size of campaign gifts, Senator James Buckley has had to spend nearly 60 percent of the $1.2 million he raised last month on fundraising, The Republican-Conservative candidate for re-election has received about half this money from out-of-state backers. His Democratic challenger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, had a better return of $10 for each $3 spent on the solicitation of funds by mail.
President Nixon’s memoirs will maintain that he erred in judgment on the Watergate break-in and its aftermath but was not personally responsible for what he regards as a partisan scandal used by political enemies to bring him down. Publishing sources in Europe and the United States who have seen part of his manuscript said that Mr. Nixon wrote that he resigned only to prevent six months of national divisiveness in an impeachment trial.
A former FBI section chief was fined $500 for stealing about $100 worth of lumber and other material from the FBI. “I really have no good explanation for my actions in this instance,” John P. Dunphy told U.S. District Judge William Jones in Washington. “The word that keeps coming to mind is stupidity,” added Dunphy, a 28-year veteran. He was the first FBI official in history to plead guilty to a corruption charge stemming from his work. The sentence could have been $1,000 and a year in prison. Dunphy had been head of the exhibits section, which builds displays for public display and trial use.
A new West Point panel of educators and former military men appointed by the Secretary of the Army met there to open a final inquiry into the cheating scandal at the Military Academy. They were asked to provide an independent analysis of the underlying causes and recommend improvements in the cadet honor system.
Scientists have begun what they call the most intensive quest in history to find artifacts and bones of the first North Americans, the tribes of hunting peoples that emigrated from Asia over a Bering Sea land bridge thousands of years ago. The three-year project, focusing on eight digging sites in Alaska and one in Canada’s Yukon, was announced in Washington by the National Geographic Society and National Park Service. Each will contribute $300,000. Scientists said that to date the Soviet Union had done more work on the Siberian travels of the early migrants than Americans have done on those who reached the American side.
Daniel Schorr, who was frequently at the center of journalistic controversies in his 23 years as a CBS News correspondent, ended his latest episode of strife yesterday by resigning from the network. Mr. Schorr, who had been accused of allowing a fellow correspondent to be suspected of an action he himself had performed — that of passing a secret House intelligence report to The Village Voice, a weekly newspaper, for publication — said that under the circumstances he saw no alternative but to resign. “Aware of the polarizing effects within CBS News of the controversy involving me,” Mr. Schorr wrote in his letter of resignation, “I would doubt my ability to function effectively if reinstated.”
A&M Records sues George Harrison for failing to meet the deadline for LP completion.
A free live concert by the rock band Queen in London’s Hyde Park, attracted 150,000 spectators. The event was sponsored by Richard Branson known at the time as the co-founder of Virgin Records.
American singer Stevie Wonder released his hit album “Songs in the Key of Life”. The double album plus EP is the biggest seller, includes “Sir Duke,” “As,” and “Isn’t She Lovely,” and wins the Grammy for Album of the Year (1977)
Defying a court order, hundreds of off-duty New York City police officers blocked traffic near Yankee Stadium and encouraged roving youths to crash the gates to the Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton heavyweight championship fight. The off-duty men, protesting new work schedules and deferred raises, were frequently cheered by officers on duty despite orders to arrest disorderly demonstrators. No arrests were reported. The scene was called chaotic.
The third Muhammad Ali vs. Ken Norton boxing bout took place as Ali, the defending world heavyweight boxing champion, had a rematch against Norton, against whom he had one loss and one win. The fight took place in front of 30,296 spectators at Yankee Stadium in New York. Although Norton landed more punches and with greater accuracy than Ali, neither man was able to knock down the other. Ali won the fight in a unanimous decision of the judges, who concluded that Ali outpointed Norton in 8 of the 15 rounds.
Major League Baseball:
Bob Knepper, who pitched six innings before going out for a pinch-hitter, gained his first major league victory when the San Francisco Giants defeated the Atlanta Braves, 4–1. Knepper also batted in the Giants’ first run with a single in the third inning. Bobby Murcer homered in the fourth. After the Braves picked up their run in the sixth, the Giants put the game away with a pair in the seventh on a walk to Murcer, singles by Gary Thomasson and Darrell Evans and a double by Chris Speier.
Wayne Garland, who came out of the Orioles’ bullpen to join the starting rotation on a regular basis in June, became a 20-game winner for the first time in his career when Bobby Grich hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning to beat the Brewers, 7–5, in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader. The Orioles also won the second game, 7–3, behind the pitching of Rudy May, who gained his 15th victory. Dave Duncan, who drove in two runs for the Orioles in lidlifter, homered in the eighth inning to tie the score before Al Bumbry singled in the 11th and Grich hit for the circuit to make a winner out of Garland. In the nightcap, the Orioles put May on easy street with five runs in the first inning, two scoring on a homer by Reggie Jackson. Doug DeCinces also rapped a round-tripper, while Dan Thomas hit a two-run blow for the Brewers.
Four innings of two-hit relief pitching by Tom Murphy enabled the Red Sox to defeat the Yankees, 7–5. The Red Sox, in turning back Ed Figueroa’s bid for his 20th victory, picked up two runs on a homer by Butch Hobson in the second inning and then wiped out the Yankees’ 4–3 lead with three runs in the fourth. Denny Doyle batted in a pair with a triple and scored on a double by Rick Miller. Jim Rice accounted for the final run with a homer in the eighth.
Mark Fidrych, who is a cinch to win American League Rookie Pitcher of Year honors, and Dennis Eckersley (13–12), last year’s winner, turned in outstanding performances as the Tigers and the Indians divided a twi-night doubleheader. Fidrych pitched the Tigers to a 4–0 victory in the opener, posting his fourth shutout of the season to bring his record to 18–9 and lower his earned run average to 2.39. Willie Horton knocked in two of the Tigers’ runs with a homer and double. Eckersley struck out 12 and picked up his 13th victory, winning the nightcap for the Indians, 6–1. Rico Carty and Joe Lis each batted in a pair of runs in support of Eckersley. Phil Mankowski hit his first major league homer to save the Tigers from being shut out.
A single by Bob Watson in the first inning for his 100th RBI of the season provided J.R. Richard (19–15) with the only run that he needed to pitch the Astros to a 1–0 victory over the Dodgers. Cesar Cedeno was safe on a two-base error by Davey Lopes before Watson singled to beat Burt Hooton.
Toby Harrah hit two homers for the Rangers and Gaylord Perry posted his 15th victory of the season, shutting out the Twins, 7–0. Harrah rapped his first homer in the second inning following a two-run triple by Lenny Randle. His other blow accounted for the Rangers’ last run in the fourth.
Ed Kranepool hit a homer in the eighth inning to tie the score and then drove in the winning run with a single in the ninth to give the Mets a 5–4 victory in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, but the Expos came back to win the second game, 4–2. Ellis Valentine drove in three Expos’ runs in the lidlifter and followed with two more RBIs in the nightcap. Larry Parrish homered for the Expos in the second inning before Valentine accounted for the decisive runs with a single in the third after Del Unser singled and Pepe Mangual dropped a fly by Andre Dawson for a two-base error.
The Athletics tightened the West Division race, pulling within 2½ games of the Royals when Mike Torrez (16–11) pitched a two-hitter and Sal Bando smashed a homer to beat the pace-setters, 1–0. Torrez retired the last 14 batters in a row. Marty Pattin matched Torrez in a scoreless duel until the seventh inning when Bando walloped his homer with a booming drive that landed 10 rows back in the left field bleachers.
Providing a spark for his own victory, Doc Medich (8–11) singled in the eighth inning to ignite a four-run outburst that brought the Pirates a 5–1 victory over the Cubs. After his hit, Medich scored on a triple by Richie Hebner to break a 1–1 tie. Other runs followed on singles by Richie Zisk and Al Oliver and a double by Dave Parker.
Out of the lineup for rest, Pete Rose made one of his rare pinch-hitting appearances and singled a run home in the eighth inning to help beat the Padres, 5–4, and give the Reds their 100th victory of the season. Tony Perez walked and moved to second when Doug Rader erred on a grounder by Johnny Bench before Rose batted for Bob Bailey and broke a 3-3 tie. Randy Jones, who started on the mound for the Padres, was forced to quit in the second inning after pulling a muscle just above his elbow. Jack Billingham (12–10) is the winner. Jones takes the loss but sets a National League record with 112 errorless chances. The Major League record is held by Frank Owen of the 1904 White Sox, who did not commit an error in 151 chances (121 assists, 30 PO). Jones finishes the year with 12 DPs, tying the National League record. He also finishes with the National League lead in wins (22), games started (40) and completed (25), IP (315.1) and hits allowed.
Turning back Steve Carlton’s bid for his 20th victory, the Cardinals defeated the Phillies, 5–3. Hector Cruz was tough on Carlton (19–7), batting in a run with a single in the second inning and hitting a homer after a single by Keith Hernandez in the fourth.
San Francisco Giants 4, Atlanta Braves 1
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Baltimore Orioles 7
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Baltimore Orioles 7
New York Yankees 5, Boston Red Sox 7
Detroit Tigers 4, Cleveland Indians 0
Detroit Tigers 1, Cleveland Indians 6
Houston Astros 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Texas Rangers 7, Minnesota Twins 0
Montreal Expos 4, New York Mets 5
Montreal Expos 4, New York Mets 2
Kansas City Royals 0, Oakland Athletics 1
Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Cincinnati Reds 5, San Diego Padres 4
Philadelphia Phillies 3, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Wall Street fears of an economic downturn sent stock prices into their worst drop in four months. The Dow Jones industrial average declined 18.20 points to 994.93. Some analysts ascribed the slide to investor nervousness about further improvement and doubted that it meant a material flattening in the recovery of the economy. Bond prices reacted upward, and the Treasury Department was able to sell $2.5 billion of five-year notes at an average rate of 7.08 percent, better than the government had expected.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 994.93 (-18.20, -1.80%)
Born:
Bonzi Wells, NBA shooting guard and small forward (Portland Trailblazers, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, New Orleans Hornets), in Muncie, Indiana.
Orlando Ruff, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns), in Charleston, South Carolina.
Chris White, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons), in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Fedor Emelianenko, Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist; in Rubizhne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Died:
Raymond Collishaw, 82, Canadian pilot and fighting ace.
