News stories from Sunday July 21, 1974
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Albert Jenner has been replaced as counsel to the Republican minority on the House Judiciary Committee. Mr. Jenner, a Chicago lawyer, supported the recommendation of John Doar, the Committee's special counsel, that the Senate vote to impeach President Nixon. He has been replaced by Sam Garrison, the panel's assistant minority counsel, who had been on the staff of former Vice President Agnew. [New York Times]
- Four labor strikes in professional sports in the last four years, a rush of lawsuits, soaring salaries and ticket prices, more government involvement in building stadiums, taxes on bets, city-hopping by teams, league-hopping by players -- all these lead to the question analyzed by sports writers of the New York Times: "Is the professional sports bubble ready to burst, or is it only inflating with the rest of the economy?" [New York Times]
- "Children alone and unprotected and already suffering from personality disorders appear to have been subjected to some of the basest indignities imaginable," said Senator Henry Jackson, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, which will make public at a hearing Tuesday allegations that children have been grossly mistreated in some private psychiatric treatment centers that have been given funds by the Department of Defense for the treatment of dependents of retired military personnel or dependents of the members of the armed forces. [New York Times]
- The United States announced that Greece and Turkey had agreed to a cease-fire between their forces on Cyprus beginning at 10 A.M. tomorrow, some 70 hours after a Turkish assault force landed on the Mediterranean island, The cease-fire would come a week after the July 15 coup in which the Cypriote National Guard led by Greek officers ousted President Makarios, setting the stage for the Turkish intervention. [New York Times]
- The Turkish general staff announced that there had been a sharp battle off the coast of western Cyprus between a Greek naval unit and Turkish naval and air forces. The Turkish communique said that the Greek vessels had been intercepted by Turkish planes and ships and that a landing operation at Paphos, a port on the southwest coast of Cyprtis, had been halted. [New York Times]
- Hundreds of people fleeing Cyprus arrived at a Royal Air Force Base in southwest Britain telling grim tales of shooting and bloodshed following the Greek-led coup. A Dublin man said: "People who were told by Makarios to lay down their guns were shot out of hand by the National Guard. They were buried in many graves. I saw paratroopers all over the place and nobody seemed to know quite what to do." [New York Times]