July 18, 1974

July 18: Abp Makarios arrives in London on July 17; is met by Min David Ennals and later confs with Prime Min Harold Wilson and Foreign Sec James Callaghan; says troops tried to kill him by attacking palace with mortars and other weapons; says he escaped through door behind his office, found palace not completely surrounded and went to near-by monastery and then to Paphos; says he left country because he considered that outside he would be able to help Cypriotes more effectively in their struggle against dictatorship; will go to NYC on July 18 to put his case before UN Security Council; says he will ask Security Council for resolution supporting him and calling upon Greece to withdraw its officers from Cyprus; reptdly asks GB to refuse to recognize new Govt in Cyprus and to support his own position at UN; Turkey's Premier Bulent Ecevit arrives later in day for working dinner with Wilson and Calleghan; Callaghan, in address to Commons, makes it plain that GB has aligned itself against Greece and favors restoration of Makarios as Pres; does not commit himself formally but tells Makarios that GB will work by diplomatic means for his restoration; cites statements of support by NATO and says he will coordinate policies with US Sec Henry A Kissinger; says Greece 'bore a heavy responsibility' for situation in Cyprus; notes Brit Govt is still awaiting substantive reply to its request to Greece to withdraw officers who led Cypriote Natl Guard; says talks with Ecevit are aimed at 'coordinating policies and actions'; Ecevit eases atmosphere considerably by stating that any mil attack on Cyprus could be ruled out for time being; says Turkey seeks peaceful solution; US, though publicly uncommitted, reptdly is moving toward decision to support Nikos Giorgiades Sampson of Cyprus; source says US might be taking more pro-Greek attitude to be able to influence Greece toward settlement; illus of Makarios, Wilson and Ecevit (L)

John Calzadilla identifies Norberto Fernandez and Wilfredo Alvarez as his abductors; describes kidnapping; Alvarez takes stand to deny any knowledge of kidnapping plot but admits driving car used in kidnapping; illus (M)

US discloses it has begun discussions with new leadership on Cyprus but insists that no decision has been made on diplomatic recognition; Nixon Adm reptdly is leading more toward Nikos Giorgiades Sampson than toward Abp Makarios; US State Dept spokesman Robert H Anderson announces that new Cypriote Foreign Min Dimis Demetriou was recd in Nicosia by US Amb Rodger P Davies but stresses that US relations with Cyprus have been in abeyance since coup; says pol situation remains unclear in Cyprus and that question of recognition does not arise now; San Clemente White House announces that Pres Nixon, acting on recommendation of Sec Henry A Kissinger, has decided to send Under Sec Joseph J Sisco to London to discuss Cyprus with Brit and Turkish officials; State Dept says that Sisco is going 'more to listen than to tell'; high US officials say that Kissinger rejected appeals of dept specialists on Greek-Turkish-Cypriote affairs that US stand by Makarios and assert that Greek forces had intervened illegally on Cyprus; say for yrs Nixon Adm has viewed Makanos as 'Castro of the Mediterranean' who turned too readily toward Communist states for assistance; advocates of Makarios in State Dept reptdly hoped for US declaration in his behalf as lever to topple mil leadership of Greek Brig Gen Dimitrios Ioannides; US Sen Foreign Relations Com chmn J W Fulbright sends cablegram to Makarios in London inviting him to testify before com; Amb Davies illus (L)

Bomb explodes in cellar armory of Tower of London's White Tower; 1 tourist killed, 41 others, about half of them children, hurt; police silent on IRA link (M)

In an action rare in the history of science, prominent !American biologists, including one winner of the Nobel Prize, are voluntarily renouncing, for the present two types of genetic experiments that they consider could be hazardous..