Photograph: Israeli General Aharon Yariv arrives for the signing of the Kilometer 101 Six-Point Agreement on November 11, 1973.
Egypt and Israel signed a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord brokered by Henry Kissinger. Egypt and Israel signed the cease-fire agreement sponsored by the United States and immediately began direct discussion on carrying it out. The discussions marked the first time since the 1949 armistice that higher officers of the two warring nations met in negotiations over issues larger than the establishment and maintenance of local cease-fire agreements.
In an open tent on a dusty desert plain, at a marker showing that Cairo was 101 kilometers, or about 63 miles, distant, Major General Aharon Yariv and Lieutenant General Mohammed Abdel Ghany el‐Gamasy signed the cease‐fire agreement, while the commander of the United Nations Emergency Force, Major General Ensio Siilasvuo, presided at the head of the table. A United Nations spokesman from Cairo, Rudolf Stadjuhar, described the atmosphere at the signing, which lasted an hour and five minutes, as “fair” and “correct.” The officers did not shake hands, he added.
The six points of the agreement are as follows:
1.Egypt and Israel will observe the cease‐fire.
2.Both sides will discuss the return to the positions that their forces held on October 22, when the United Nations called for a cease‐fire. Egypt says that Israeli forces extended their bridgehead on the western bank of the Suez Canal after the truce was called.
3.The city of Suez, which is surrounded by. Israeli forces, will be supplied, and wounded civilians evacuated.
4.The Egyptian forces on the eastern bank of the canal will be supplied.
5.The Israeli checkpoints on the Cairo‐Suez Road will be replaced by United Nations checkpoints.
6.All prisoners of war will be exchanged.
Egypt and Israel were unable to agree in two bargaining sessions on the first steps toward carrying out the cease‐fire agreement they signed today. After the signing in a big tent, Major General Aharon Yariv of Israel and Major General Mohammed Abdel Ghany el‐Gamasy of Egypt could be seen through the open sides of the tent addressing each other and General Ensio Siilasvuo, the commander of the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East. They spoke English without interpreters. After a 10‐minute break they re‐entered the tent for a second bargaining session. About an hour later, at dusk, they separated without reaching agreement on the first steps under the cease‐fire. Another meeting was set for midday tomorrow.
Hermann F. Eilts arrived here today to become the first United States Ambassador to Egypt since Cairo broke diplomatic relations with Washington during the 1967 Arab‐Israeli war. The new exchange of ambassadors between Egypt and the United States was announced last week during Secretary of State Kissinger’s visit to Egypt. Since the 1967 war, American affairs here have been handled by a small staff of United States diplomats working in the Spanish Embassy. Mr. Eilts, who joined the State Department in 1947, has since served in a number of Arab countries.
The Viet Cong charged today that dozens of people had been killed or wounded in a government “extermination bombing” of the Communist‐held town of Lò Gò, 70 miles northwest of Saigon. Nearly 100 bombs fell yesterday on a populated area of more than half a square mile in Lò Gò, said a spokesman for the Viet Cong delegation to the Military Commission in Saigon. The Saigon government command said that it had no information on the reported bombing. The Saigon command said that Communist gunners had shelled its navy base at Xẻo Rô, 125 miles southwest of Saigon on the Gulf of Siam. More than 100 mortar rounds struck the base yesterday, killing one soldier and wounding 16 and damaging three river patrol boats, the command said. It was the first time the base had been reported attacked since the January 28 cease‐fire. In Quảng Đức Province, heavy rain and low clouds reportedly slowed ground and air efforts by government forces to strike at Communist troops who recently overran three government outposts along the Cambodian border.
Secretary of State Kissinger and Premier Chou En‐lai met again today in Peking. Later the two attended a ballet, “White‐Haired Girl,” a tribute to the Chinese Revolution. No details were disclosed of their session in the Great Hall of the People, the second since Mr. Kissinger arrived in Peking yesterday from his whirlwind Middle East peace‐making mission. Before the meeting, which lasted three and a half hours, Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Chou called in photographers and newsmen to record their smiles and friendly banter. Mr. Chou told Mr. Kissinger, a nonsmoker, that he encourages smoking because it is good for the Chinese economy. But the Chinese Premier said he does not approve of drinking very much. “I drank from 1935 to 1965, for 30 years,” he said. “That’s quite enough.” Mr. Kissinger replied, “Mr. Premier, that’s going to make quite a headline in America.”
About 150 demonstrators, among them priests and nuns, filed out of the Vatican Embassy in Madrid after a 20-hour sit-in in support of six Spanish priests on a hunger strike in jail. The demonstrators were not arrested by police. Another 50 priests continued a similar sit-in at the palace of the bishop in Bilbao. The jailed priests are on a hunger strike to demand a transfer to another jail. They are at a special detention center for clergy at Zamora.
Terrorist gunmen struck in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, leaving four gunshot victims — three in serious condition. One victim was thrown from a car in the Roman Catholic market area of Belfast. He had been shot in the temple and badly beaten. On the other side of the capital, two brothers were shot by hidden gunmen in the fiercely Protestant Sandy Row district. In the Irish Republic, troops and police hunted a terrorist gang that bombed the County Monaghan home of a man who used to live in Ulster. The man was hit in the back by machine-gun fire as he tried to flee the house. His wife and three other men escaped from the house before the bomb exploded.
Former Greek Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, 71, testified at a trial in Athens that police lost control and attacked demonstrators following memorial services last week for the late Premier George Papandreou. Thirty persons were arrested. Kanellopoulos, the last constitutionally appointed premier before the 1967 army coup, told the court: “I am obliged to condemn the systematic barbarity of the police in recent years, a barbarity that tries to muzzle public opinion and the voice of the people.”
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz told a press conference in Munich that the United States was prepared to discuss its quotas on dairy products at the forthcoming round of GATT negotiations, and was prepared to modify them. “However,” he said, “we will not be giving them away for free.” Butz was conferring on the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs talks with West German Agriculture Minister Joseph Ertl. Butz will attend a world soybean conference in Munich today.
The British Aircraft Corp., codevelopers of the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic jetliner, admitted the existence of an internal company memorandum highly critical of the plane’s performance and sales prospects. Parts of the memorandum were published in the London Observer. But a company spokesman said parts of the memorandum were out of date. He specifically cited a report on the Concorde’s airport noise and said later measurements of the noise did not support the pessimistic report.
Seven extremists were killed and several others injured in an abortive attack on an army regiment in Temuco in southern Chile, President General Augusto Pinochet announced in Santiago. Pinochet said the attack was repelled. He spoke to newsmen after attending a Mass to commemorate the coup he led two months ago to overthrow the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, in a broadcast marking the eighth anniversary of the nation’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, said the “enthusiastic amateurs” had undermined his government’s efforts to reach a settlement with Britain. Attacking those who believe that accord can be achieved by “giving a little more” as being “naive in the extreme,” he said it was clear that most Rhodesians supported the government’s stand on the 1971 Anglo-Rhodesian settlement terms being accepted without change.
Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton said that “the odds are better than 50-50” that the federal government would institute gasoline rationing “within the next two or three months.” He appeared on the “Issues and Answers” television program. Charles DiBona, deputy to John Love, the White House energy chief, said almost the same thing on a Washington television program. He said that if the present cut-off of oil supplies by Arab nations continued, “the probabilities of having gas rationing before the winter is over are very high.”
President Nixon plans to meet this week with all 234 Republicans in Congress and answer all their questions about Watergate and related matters. A spokesman for the President confirmed that a series of six meetings on Watergate was scheduled after Senator Charles Percy, Illinois Republican, disclosed the President’s plans.
Federal court hearings on the secret White House tapes have raised serious doubt among legal authorities that many of the tapes will ever be usable as evidence in future Watergate criminal trials. The fact-finding sessions before Judge John Sirica, which go into their third week tomorrow, have failed thus far to establish whether two missing conversations between President Nixon and aides were inadvertently unrecorded, as the White House insists, or conveniently mislaid, as the Watergate prosecutors have suggested, but not charged. The recordings may have lost much of their potential evidential nature.
With repair work on the rocket now progressing more rapidly, space agency officials decided today against any further delay in launching the Skylab 3 astronauts. The launching of the planned 85‐day mission in earth orbit is scheduled for 9:36 A.M. Thursday. The announcement was made here late this afternoon as workmen at the launching pad were halfway through their replacement of eight defective tail fins on the Saturn 1‐B rocket. They are expected to complete the task in time for the countdown to be resumed Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said, “The schedule, while tight, is still attainable unless some unforeseen event occurs.”
The Cost of Living Council approved a salary increase of 6%, or $9 a week, for workers on strike at 48 hospitals and nursing homes in New York City, a council spokesman said. Fringe benefits of 3.3% also were approved, according to a union spokesman, boosting the package to 9.3%. The union will vote today on whether to accept the settlement. The workers had sought a 7.3% pay hike, set by a state arbitration panel last May, but the amount exceeded the 5.5% guideline of the council. The seven-day walkout by 30,000 nonmedical employees has included picket line violence. Dr. Joseph Cimino, the city’s health commissioner, said in a TV interview that the lives of some elderly patients inevitably would be shortened if the strike continued this week.
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) said 20 case studies just released showed that the Pentagon had paid up to five times more for weapons and electronic equipment when it bought them from a single supplier than when it asked for bids. A staff study of the cases said the government had paid more than double the price on the average for single supplier contracts. This “raises the most serious questions about the willingness of the Pentagon and the defense industry to cut costs,” Proxmire said. The cases concerned purchases during 1965-70, when the Vietnam war was in full swing. Proxmire’s joint subcommittee on priorities and economy in government will open hearings Wednesday on the acquisition of weapons systems.
Breathing helium with air may make the heart more resistant to the wild beats that often are the immediate cause of death after a heart attack, two Chicago scientists reported. Drs. Fernando Amat y Leon and Williard S. Harris of the University of Illinois told the annual meeting in Atlantic City of the American Heart Assn. they had reached that conclusion on the basis of tests with dogs. They said resistance to abnormal heart rhythms rose sharply after inhalation of a mixture of 60% helium with oxygen and nitrogen. They said the helium did not affect other heart functions or blood pressure.
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-New York), said he would ask the General Accounting Office to determine how much fuel was consumed by President Nixon on trips to his homes in Florida and California. “I think it is only fair that the American people, asked by the President to make substantial sacrifices to save fuel, know how much fuel the President consumes when he decides to fly away from the White House for a weekend in Key Biscayne, or Camp David or for a longer stay in San Clemente,” Rangel said in a statement. Ronald Ziegler, presidential press secretary, said last week that Mr. Nixon did not plan to reduce his air travel but his jet would fly at slower speeds to conserve fuel.
Democrats indicated they might write provisions for a national policy conference every four years into the first draft of a party charter. Members of the charter commission, meeting in Atlanta, agreed that the charter should include a vehicle for such policy discussion but disagreed over what form it should take. Several proposals received sufficient support in straw votes to be included in the draft. A final version of the charter will be presented at a party policy conference in December, 1974.
Oregon has three months of experience with the kind of energy-saving program that President Nixon has proposed for the entire country — and Governor Tom McCall has a cold. When he instituted the program last August, one of the. Governor’s suggestions was that during cool weather home and office temperatures be kept at 68 degrees or less. And now not only Mr. McCall but also his wife, his son and his dog all have the sniffles. The Oregon experience makes clear that voluntary efforts can save small but significant amounts of energy. It is estimated that the state cut its consumption of electricity by 8 percent last month.
The nonprofit Children’s Television Workshop has received $7‐million in grants for the production next fall of a health information series for adults based on the same “education plus entertainment” techniques used successfully on “Sesame Street” and “Electric Company.”
Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s second album “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle.”
NFL Football:
The Packers, with Jerry Tagge making his first start at quarterback, broke a four-game losing streak on the running of John Brockington and Les Goodman, a rookie, edging the Cardinals, 25—21. Brockington picked up 137 yards on 28 carries and Goodman 56 yards in 11 attempts. Goodman replaced MacArthur Lane in the second quarter after Lane suffered a knee injury. Jim Hart rallied the Cards from a 22‐7 half‐time deficit with a 23‐yard scoring pass to Ahmad Rashad and a 2‐yard touchdown run by Terry Metcalf that was set up by Hart’s passing. At half‐time, the Packers officially retired Green Bay jersey No. 15, worn for 16 years by Bart Starr before he retired in 1972. The only other Packer jersey to be retired belonged Don Hutson.
The Dolphins’ defensive unit held the Colts to four first downs and permitted Baltimore into Miami territory only twice as they won in a 44—0 rout. Miami has now held the Colts scoreless for 18 consecutive quarters since 1971. Mercury Morris led the Miami offense with touchdown runs of 48 and 53 yards. Tim Foley, the Miami cornerback, also scored two touchdowns, on recoveries of blocked punts. On a bright and sunny day in Miami, 19,715 ticketholders did not go to the Orange Bowl whose 80,047 seats were all sold.
Charlie Waters intercepted two passes and recovered a fumble Sunday to spark an alert Dallas Cowboys defense that subdued the New York Giants, 23—10. The Cowboys, who clobbered the Giants, 45—28, three weeks ago, were listless on offense but utilized four pass interceptions, two fumble recoveries, a blocked punt and a blocked field goal to hand New York its seventh straight loss. Dallas is now 6-3. Walt Garrison scored both Dallas touchdowns, on a 4-yard pass from Roger Staubach in the second period and a 1-yard run in the final period but both scores were set up by the blocked kicks. Tony Fritsch accounted for the other Cowboy points with field goals of 13, 37, and 17 yards. Waters, the Cowboys’ left cornerback who has often been the target of opposing quarterbacks since he replaced Herb Adderley midway through last season, intercepted a Randy Johnson pass the first time the Giants had the ball to set the tempo of the game. He grabbed it on the Cowboy 42 and returned it to the Giants’ 11 to set up Fritsch’s first field goal.
John Riggins and Emerson Boozer each ran for first-half touchdowns and third-string quarterback Bill Demory passed 31 yards for another Sunday as the New York Jets took advantage of New England mistakes to defeat the Patriots, 33—13. Demory, who came on when Al Woodall injured his elbow in the second period, threw 31 yards to Jerome Barkum in the last period after Delles Howell’s 41-yard interception return. Riggins, who gained 96 yards in three quarters, plunged 1 yard for a score in the first period and Boozer churned 17 yards for a second quarter touchdown.
Both defenses were dominant today on a soggy field, but the Oakland Raider offense threw a series of spectacular mistakes into the balance and helped the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 17—9 victory in a meeting between division leaders in the American Football Conference. Because Ken Stabler, Oakland’s starting quarterback, had to leave the game with a strained knee on the second play of the second period, the Oakland attack returned to the hands of Daryle Lamonica, who had been replaced by Stabler after two early season defeats. What followed was sheer nightmare for an 11‐year pro, and for those involved with his fortunes. Among other things he was sacked five times, intercepted four times and penalized twice for intentionally grounding the ball. And three times as he knelt to hold the ball for a George Blanda kick attempt, Dave Dalby’s snap from center sailed past him. In addition, Charlie Smith fumbled the ball away on the Oakland 6‐yard line in the third quarter, giving the Steelers a point‐blank shot at a touchdown (scored by Franco Harris) that made the score 14—3. And throughout the game, the 95 yards the Raiders got in penalties also nullified 78 yards those plays gained, plus two downs and one possession.
The Bills’ hopes for a wild card playoff spot diminished as Cincinnati’s Horst Muhlmann kicked a 33‐yard field goal with three seconds to play to break a 13—13 tie and give the Bengals a 16—13 win. It was Muhlmann’s third 3‐pointer of the game. O. J. Simpson ran 32 yards for Buffalo’s lone touchdown. Simpson gained 99 yards in 20 carries to raise his total yardage for nine games to 1,203 yards.
Five weeks ago, Coach Norm Van Brocklin of the Atlanta Falcons was under heavy pressure from the home fans. They were screaming for his job as the Falcons lost for the third week in row and failed in each loss to score a touchdown. Things have changed. Van Brocklin, who had been alternating Bob Lee and Dick Shiner at quarterback, gave the job to Lee. Since then, the Falcons have won five straight games and are in earnest contention for playoff berth in the National Football League’s National Conference. Yesterday they ran their won‐lost records to 6-3 with a 44—27 triumph over the Eagles in Philadelphia. Lee, ranked third among National Conference passers tossed a 12‐yard touchdown pass to Ken Burrow and set up two other Falcon scores with his aerials. But the Eagles played evenly with the Falcons for three quarters as Roman Gabriel tossed three touchdown passes against the league’s top‐rated pass defense. His second scoring lob, a 4‐yarder to Norm Bulaich, tied the score 20—20 late in the third quarter. The Falcons then erupted for 24 points in the final 15 minutes to nail down the victory. Eddie Ray and Harmon Wages plunged for shortrange touchdowns, Nick Mike-Mayer booted his third field goal and Burrow caught his second touchdown pass of the day, this one from Pat Sullivan. Lee completed 12 of 23 passes for 109 yards while Ray led the ground attack with 71 yards on 12 carries.
After ending their 18‐game losing streak last week, the Oilers slipped back into their old form quickly, bowing to the Browns, 23—13. Cleveland gained 195 yards in the first quarter to take a 17—0 lead. Mike Phipps plunged 1 yard for a score, Don Cockcroft kicked the first of three field goals and Greg Pruitt, a former Houston schoolboy star, raced 53 yards for a touchdown. Cockroft, who has 18 field goals for the season, connected from 20, 32 and 45 yards.
The undefeated and untied Minnesota Vikings clinched a tie for the National Football Conference’s Central Division crown today by beating the Detroit Lions, 28—7, before 47,911 fans. If the Chicago Bears, who are also in the Central Division, lose or tie their game with Kansas City tomorrow night, the Vikings will clinch the title. Spotting its rival the game’s opening touchdown in the first quarter, Minnesota stormed back to even the score later in the quarter. Then it powered to victory, dominating the game. It was the Vikings’ ninth triumph of the season and their 12th straight over the Lions since 1967. They were paced by Fran Tarkenton, the former New York Giants’ quarterback. Fran, displaying his usual elusiveness, completed 11 of 15 aerials for 177 yards. His pass accounted for the game’s final touchdown near the end of the third quarter. He connected on a 33‐yarder with the Vikings ace receiver, John Gilliam. After catching the, pass, Gilliam sidestepped away from the Lions’ safety, Mike Weger, and lunged the remaining yard into the end zone.
The Vikings, under the guidance of their phlegmatic coach, Bud Grant, seemed content to pace themselves thereafter, possibly with their next skirmish against the Atlanta Falcons in mind. As for the Lions, once over their big move in the first period, they seemed unable to advance with consistency. Minnesota’s defense showed why it was the stingiest in the league in allowing touchdowns. Detroit was able to advance inside the Viking 20 only twice again — to the 15 in the third period and the 16 in the fourth. Tarkenton’s fine display of passing was rounded out by some impressive running by the Vikings’ hard ‐ hitting backs. Bill Brown, replacing the ailing Oscar Reed, led with 101 yards, averaging 5.3 yards a carry. Also effective was Ed Marinaro, the former Cornell star. He got 52 yards on 10 carries. Dave Osborn, who replaced Brown late in the game, also showed plenty of power with a 79‐yard output on 14 rushes. Chuck Foreman, the prize rookie running back, was out with an injury.
The Redskins found their missing offense today and crushed the San Francisco 49ers, 33—9, as Bill Kilmer passed for 267 yards. Subjected to straight defeats by New Orleans and Pittsburgh plus the growing skepticism of the local press, Washington won its sixth game and remained in a tie for first with Dallas in the National Conference’s Eastern Division. Of their remaining five opponents, the Redskins play only one with a winning record, the Cowboys, at Dallas on December 9, with the division title probably at stake. The decisiveness of today’s score was deceptive because the 49ers were less than formidable. Joe Reed, the quarterback, was making his first start and after a good first half, which left them trailing, 10—9, the 49ers made their mistakes — three lost fumbles and two intercepted passes. These five turnovers gave the Redskins the ball on the San Francisco 27-, 23-, 27- again, 37-, and 35-yard lines. They scored four times from those opportunities — three field goals and a touchdown. The 49ers fell apart and crossed midfield only in the last two minutes.
Playing their first game under Ron Waller, who succeeded Harland Svare as head coach, the Chargers took a 16—10 lead at half, but fell victim to two second‐half touchdown passes by Charley Johnson and lost, 30—19. Johnson, playing his 13th season of pro ball, hit Gene Washington with a 19‐yard scoring pass in the third period and Riley Odoms on a 14‐yarder with 10 minutes left in the game. One of San Diego’s touchdowns came on an 80‐yard return of an intercepted pass by Coy Bacon, a defensive tackle. Floyd Little scored two Bronco touchdowns and gained 108 yards.
The Rams, trailing 7—0 in the second quarter, charged back to break a two-game losing streak and win easily, 29—7. Remaining a game in front of Atlanta in the Western Division, the Rams used the running of Larry McCutcheon and the passing of John Hadl to overtake the Saints. McCutcheon, a second‐year pro from Colorado State, carried the ball 21 times for 115 yards. He also caught an 18‐yard touchdown pass from Hadl in the last minute of the first half. Hadl gained 221 yards on 13 completions in 25 attempts. Archie Manning tossed a 65‐yard scoring pass to Jubilee Dunbar for the Saints’ only touchdown.
St. Louis Cardinals 21, Green Bay Packers 25
Baltimore Colts 0, Miami Dolphins 44
Dallas Cowboys 23, New York Giants 10
New England Patriots 13, New York Jets 33
Pittsburgh Steelers 17, Oakland Raiders 9
Cincinnati Bengals 16, Buffalo Bills 13
Atlanta Falcons 44, Philadelphia Eagles 27
Cleveland Browns 23, Houston Oilers 13
Detroit Lions 7, Minnesota Vikings 28
San Francisco 49ers 9, Washington Redskins 33
San Diego Chargers 19, Denver Broncos 30
New Orleans Saints 7, Los Angeles Rams 29
Born:
Terrance Shaw, NFL cornerback (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 36-Patriots, 2001; San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings), in Marshall, Texas.
Jason White, American punk rock guitarist (Green Day), in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Died:
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, 78, Finnish chemist and 1945 Nobel Prize laureate for his discoveries in food preservation
Hassan al-Hudaybi, 81, Egyptian terrorist and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood since 1951, died after 19 years under house arrest.
Harry Raymond Eastlack, 39, American sufferer of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva and the subject of medical research that led to most of the recorded knowledge of the disease
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