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Read more...The July 17, 1975 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 197 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
If you were born on this day, you are 50 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, July 17, 2025, 88 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, July 17, 2026, in 276 days. You have lived for 18,351 days, or about 440,441 hours, or about 26,426,485 minutes, or about 1,585,589,100 seconds.
Date: 18 July 1975
Communist-dominated Laotian Govt bans English-language Bangkok Post for allegedly printing 'erroneous' repts about conditions in country and establishes requirement that foreign newsmen must have permission of Information Min before entering Laos in 1st major step against foreign press (S)
Date: 18 July 1975
UPI repts Boston-Globe's exclusive rights to syndicated newspaper features have been limited to 6-county area under agreement approved by Fed Judge Edmund Palmieri ending 8 yrs of litigation; Palmieri found agreement reached in antitrust action filed by Justice Dept against Globe to be in public interest; approved formula provides that Globe give up its exclusive rights over 46 daily newspapers and all other media in Maine, NH, Vermont and Mass east of and including Worcester, Mass (S)
Date: 17 July 1975
By HENRY GINIGER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Portuguese mil rulers dissolve coalition Govt, July 17, hrs after withdrawal of centrist Popular Dem party, 2d of nation's 2 moderate parties; centrists' withdrawal from Govt follows by less than wk, Socialist party's exit; 2 mins leaving Govt are Joaquim Magalhaes Mota, Min Without Portfolio, and Jorge Sa Borges, Social Affairs Min; Sa Borges had hesitated about joining Socialists in opposition to mil because he feared such a move could foster civil war; after meeting with Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes, centrist party natl com decided that its demands for guarantees on free press and on representative democracy had been rejected; armed forces' leaders are now expected to form mil Cabinet with civilian technicians; dissolution of Govt is not surprising; withdrawal of popular Dems signifies widening of breach between armed forces and exponents of parliamentary democracy; incidents leading to Govt's collapse revd; includes seizures by Communist party and far-left groups of Socialist party newspaper Republica; far-left groups demonstrate to demand constituent Assembly's dissolution and application of armed forces' new pol plan; thousands of Socialists also demonstrate, shouting 'people are not with armed forces'; ruling High Council of Revolution is expected to convene to decide fate of Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves (L)
Date: 17 July 1975
ed holds Portugal's mil leaders and Communist allies have taken sharp turn toward authoritarian 'popular democracy' of Eastern Eur type and away from their pledges of dem socialism, representative govt and a parliamentary regime; holds dissolution of Govt following resignation of Socialist and center-left Popular Dems dramatizes widening gap between Portuguese people and Moscow-backed mil-civilian minority; notes Socialist break came after mil failed to return party's principal newspaper Republica; asserts that paper's seizure clearly was means chosen by Communist leader Alvaro Cunhal to force showdown and mil repudiation of Apr elections, which gave Communists only 18% of vote; asserts that effort by Socialists and other moderates, mil and civilian, to preserve dem gains achieved by Apr '74 coup will continue; holds struggle deserves more support from Western Eur dems and US than it has been receiving
Date: 17 July 1975
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis article, 2d in series on lying in Govt as threat to dem premises, revs proposal by Peter D W Heberling and Prof Amitai Etzioni of Center for Policy Research to make it felony for exec branch employe to lie to Cong or Cong com or order another to lie; urges Ford to oppose official untruth (M)
Date: 17 July 1975
headlines from Pravda and Izvestia about Apollo-Soyuz mission noted (S)
Date: 18 July 1975
By HENRY GINIGFR Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
leaders of French Communist and Socialist parties, joined in strained alliance, urge opposite course for Portugal's Socialists, who withdrew for Portugal's coalition Govt; French Communists tell Portuguese Socialist party to 'pull itself together' and resume cooperation with Communists; French Socialists express solidarity with their 'Portuguese comrades' who are facing 'an obvious deterioration of econ and pol situation' in Portugal; French Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand assures Portuguese Socialist leader Mario Soares of 'entire solidarity of French Socialist party' (S)
Date: 17 July 1975
Carey holds news conf, Albany
Date: 18 July 1975
By JOHN DARNTON
John DARNTON
Munic Assistance Corp dirs tell Mayor Beame that NYC must immediately undertake series of dramatic measures--even beyond wage freeze for city employes--to reopen money-lending mkt to city and corp; proposals, advanced during emergency 1 1/2-hr meeting, include transit fare increase, tuition at City Univ, additional layoffs and salary decreases for city employes; 1 source, a corp dir, remarks that Beame will embrace 'practically any program that we tell him' that will enable corp to sell bonds; pessimism seen marking meeting; Felix G Rohatyn, corp dir, tells Beame that there is 'less than 50-50 chance' that anything city could do would help sell bonds; corp bd, before meeting with Beame, Deputy Mayor James A Cavanagh and Controller Harrison J Goldin, meets with top bankers, including Chase-Manhattan chmn David Rockefeller and First Natl City pres William I Spencer; Beame illus with Flynn and Goldin (L)
Date: 18 July 1975
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker article on suggestion by US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Dir Fred C Ikle for legis making it crime to divulge or publish secret information on how US monitors Soviet mil developments; says Ikle has pinpointed serious problem worthy of study; says his concern illustrates difficulties that can arise in open soc with free press and those that would result from legis limiting that freedom; says proposal could conceivably be defined in legis, but discusses ramifications of such a precedent and suggests costs may be too high