Photograph: Israelis led by General Yariv (wearing glasses), leave the tent after signing the peace accord brokered by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, between Israel and Egypt, 12th November 1973.
A dispute has arisen over the Mideast peace agreement involving Israeli and United Nations troops. The dispute concerns who will check the supplies which are being sent to the trapped Egyptian 3rd Army. Meanwhile, more 3rd Army soldiers surrendered to the Israelis. In New York, United Nations Secretary General Waldheim reprimanded Israel for upsetting a U.N. checkpoint.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Chinese leaders in Peking. Kissinger summarized the Mideast peace plan for reporters traveling with the party. Kissinger met earlier today with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and later with Chairman Mao Tse-tung to discuss world problems, including the Mideast. Speaking later with reporters, Kissinger explained the reasons for U.S. support of Israel in the Mideast conflict. He noted that no settlement can be guaranteed, but the differences between Israel and Egypt are hopefully being narrowed.
In Tel Aviv, Israeli premier Golda Meir said that the proposed December peace conference regarding the Mideast was news to her.
In the strongest official denunciation of Soviet‐American accords yet heard in Western Europe, France’s Foreign Minister said today that the “brutal crises” in the Middle East confirmed his government’s doubts about the superpowers’ capacities to keep peace. The Minister, Michel Jobert, told Parliament in a major foreign‐policy speech that understandings between the United States and the Soviet Union had not prevented war.
The French Foreign Minister said the Americans and the Russians could reach results only by using “pressures and threats” aimed not just at Israel and the Arab states but at each other. Mr. Jobert described Western Europe meantime as being “treated like a nonperson, humiliated all along the line,” while the Soviet Union and the United States delivered vast arms supplies to their warring clients and then pursued secret negotiations toward a ceasefire.
Cambodian government forces reportedly fought through the day today in an effort to dislodge insurgent troops who cut Phnom Penh’s road to the sea yesterday. The road, Route 4, which connects the capital with the port of Kompong Som, 134 miles to the southwest, was severed at a point 38 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. It was the second time in two days that the road was closed to supply convoys. It was blocked for six hours on Saturday at a point eight miles from Phnom Penh. Just before the insurgents cut the road yesterday, a 193-truck convoy reached Phnom Penh with rice and other supplies. Also three oil tankers and three rice barges managed to Make the trip to Phnom Penh up the Mekong River, arriving last night. In other action, government troops supported by planes were said to have begun a drive over the weekend against insurgent positions near Vihear Suor, 11 miles east of the Capital.
Four thousand students at South Korea’s largest university for women held a rally today to demand a “genuine democratic system” in this country in the latest development in the spreading student protest against the government. They resolved to wear black ribbons on their jackets until conditions are improved. The rally took place at Ewha Women’s University, the first women’s university to join the protest charging government repression in South Korea. Ewha, a Christian‐oriented institution with an enrollment of 8,000, is the world’s largest university exclusively for women. The protest movement started early last month when students of Seoul National University staged a series of demonstrations calling for an end of “fascist rule.” Today students of two more colleges of the national university joined in the spreading boycott of classes, bringing the number of colleges affected in the state-run university to nine out of the total of 13.
Belgium, in an effort to cut fuel consumption in the wake of the Arab oil boycott, banned Sunday pleasure driving in a move emulating that of neighboring Holland. For two consecutive Sundays the Dutch have turned to bicycles, foot power, and even roller skates as the government, also hit by an oil boycott, decreed a one-day ban on driving. Last Sunday, the ban was widened to include foreign drivers faced with the temptation of speeding on vacated Holland highways.
The British government outlawed two Protestant extremist organizations in Northern Ireland — the Red Hand Commandos and the Ulster Freedom Fighters — amid a series of bomb attacks that injured 13 persons in Belfast. The UFF claimed responsibility for the three-hour wave of bombings and said they would continue at least until Christmas. The guerrilla groups join the Protestant. Ulster Volunteer Force and the Roman Catholic Irish Republican Army as targets for emergency laws permitting arrest and detention without trial of suspected terrorists. Meanwhile talks were continuing between Protestant and Catholic politicians seeking ways to administer the province.
British miners, led by National Union of Mineworkers president Joe Gormley, began an overtime ban partial strike, while ambulance drivers began selective strikes.
England is preparing for the wedding of Princess Anne to Mark Phillips. The technical rehearsal of the wedding occurred today. In a BBC interview, the couple admitted that they are nervous.
Six Roman Catholic priests in the seventh day of a hunger strike in Spain’s Zamora Prison were reported in weakened condition but support was growing for them on the outside. Scores of their fellow clergymen have sent messages to the Pope, the European Council of Episcopal Conferences and to the archbishop of Madrid asking them to intervene on behalf of the prisoners. The imprisoned priests charge they are being held under conditions that violate the church-state concordat with the Vatican.
Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski held an audience with Pope Paul VI to discuss possible links between the Vatican and Poland. The Pope has led a vigorous campaign to improve relations with the Communist world. The Vatican has diplomatic relations with only two Marxist countries, Yugoslavia and Cuba.
A grocers’ strike in protest against price curbs is spreading in France as shopkeepers, joined by the major trade unions, head for a new confrontation with the Government over its anti‐inflation policies. Fruit and vegetable stores were closed in the Paris area beginning last Thursday, creating losses so far calculated at $4.5‐million from produce rotting at Rungis, the wholesale market near Orly Airport. The shutters fell in front of similar shops throughout France today, as the call went out for a general strike this Thursday of all small merchants, including operators of the nations’ 45,000 gasoline stations. Only the supermarkets are staying open, and their shelves are fast being emptied by housewives who have begun hoarding to assure reserves for salade de tomate or pommes frites.
Seeking to end Turkey’s political crisis, President Fahri Koruturk asked former Premier Suleyman Demirel to form a new government. Demirel, 49, chairman of the conservative Justice Party, was premier from 1965 to 1971. He was toppled by Turkish military commanders who claimed he had been unable to end a wave of terrorism and bring about social and economic reforms.
David Wilkie, head of an Argentine subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana, flew to the United States after kidnappers released him unharmed in Buenos Aires for an undisclosed ransom, his company, Amoco Oil, announced. Wilkie was held 17 days by what were believed to be common criminals. The ransom was negotiated by company officials and was reportedly well under $1 million. “He was in good health and was well-fed and well-treated,” a company official said.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi faced an angry opposition in Parliament today as a six‐week winter session began. Both the rightist and leftist parties demanded the resignation of the Government if it was unable to curb the rise of prices. The Jan Sanghi party leader, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and two other members rode in a bullock cart to Parliament House to demonstrate the “ludicrous nature” of Mrs. Gandhi’s ride last week in a buggy. Several others came in bicycles. Last Monday, Mrs. Gandhi had a brief but widely publicized ride in a two‐wheeled horse cart to set an example in conserving gasoline in the face of shortages. The Government has increased the price of gasoline more than 80 percent after the Middle East producers cut the supply of crude oil to India.
A tribal official said in Oshakati, South-West Africa, that an undisclosed number of Ovambo tribesmen were publicly flogged during the weekend for ignoring repeated warnings by their chiefs not to hold unauthorized political meetings. Reports of floggings have trickled out of mineral-rich Ovamboland, the homeland of the 350,000-member tribe in northern South-West Africa, for several weeks. Various clergymen have protested the punishment, but Ovambo authorities insist that tribal elders will continue to deal with offenders according to the tribal system “as is our right.”
Braniff Airways and its chairman Harding Lawrence admitted contributing illegally to the 1972 Nixon re-election campaign. Both will be fined.
Republican “dirty tricks” specialist Donald Segretti began serving his six-month sentence for political sabotage.
The Maryland bar association began formal disbarment proceedings for former Vice President Spiro Agnew. The Northern Virginia bar association has launched an investigation into the possible disbarment of former presidential counsel John Dean.
Congressional investigators are probing possible criminal activities of the Small Business Administration.
A budget clash between Congress and the Nixon administration is forthcoming. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill is expected to pass easily but a presidential veto is likely. The bill is the one responsible for funding most social programs.
More defects were found in the rocket to be used for the Skylab 3 mission. The Skylab 3 launching was postponed again today after technicians discovered more cracks in the eight‐year‐old Saturn 1B rocket. Space agency officials announced that the manned mission would be delayed at least 24 hours, from Thursday to Friday morning, and might be further postponed. A careful re-examination of the 22‐story-tall rocket was being made to determine if the corrosion, stress cracking and other defects were even more widespread. William C. Schneider, the Skylab program director, said at a news conference late this afternoon that the chances of a Friday launching were “iffy, at best.” A decision on the new launching date will be made tomorrow. If no further trouble is discovered, and repairs can be made quickly, the three astronauts — Lieutenant Colonel Gerald P. Carr of the Marines, Lieutenant Colonel William R. Pogue of the Air Force and Dr. Edward G. Gibson, a civilian scientist — would be launched on their planned 85‐day mission at 9:01 A.M. Friday.
The House passed the bill giving the go-ahead for the Alaska oil pipeline. The Senate will consider the measure next.
A Senate committee approved legislation to try to offset the energy crisis. Gasoline rationing is a possibility. Administration energy czar John Love believes that rationing may be necessary by the beginning of next year; fuel costs are expected to rise also. AFL-CIO president George Meany called for an excess profits tax on oil companies. Environmental Protection Agency director Russell Train stated that he supports legislation to temporarily lift clean air standards for power plants and factories, so they can make use of less clean fuels.
CBS chairman William Paley reported that news analyses following major speeches will be resumed.
A former Army intelligence agent testified in federal court in Chicago that the government harassed and conducted widespread spying on the Chicago Seven defendants during their 1969 and 1970 riot conspiracy trial. The testimony came from John M. O’Brien, a former member of the 113th Military Intelligence Group in Evanston, Illinois. He also told the court, where five of the Chicago Seven defendants and their two lawyers are on trial on contempt charges, that the Army also accepted documents taken in a burglary of the Chicago Seven defense headquarters. He said written reports were sent to the Pentagon, the FBI, the Secret Service and the Chicago Police Department.
The two men who have been charged with murdering nine persons in Victor, California, may be responsible for many more murders. Willie Steelman and Douglas Gretzler gave information to the police regarding the locations of the bodies of their other victims.
In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a gang of black men abducted a white man and his black wife. The man, Brian Barfield, was then set afire by the gang. Barfield is in serious condition.
Because of the threatened cutback in social programs, a school which trains midwives in Phoenix, Arizona, may be forced to cut its enrollment by half. A project in Seattle identifies babies who are likely to have behavioral and learning problems later. This program, which is funded by the federal government, may also be cut.
The recovery progress of former U.S. POWs in Vietnam seems to be exceptional. U.S. defense officials reported that the POWs’ emotional and physical recoveries are generally good.
In a Manhattan criminal court, a kidnapper shot his accuser and then himself. Both were critically wounded.
Non-medical hospital personnel ended their week-long strike in New York City. The strikers voted to accept a compromise of their demands.
Seventeen U.S. warships began taking part in an eight-day naval exercise off the Southern California coast. Submarine, amphibious and air defenses will be tested. Drills involve 40 planes and 7,000 sailors and marines. The 11th Marine Amphibious Unit will land 1,500 men on Camp Pendleton’s beaches Thursday. The operation is under the direction of Rear Admiral Charles P. Tesh, commander of cruiser-destroyer group 5.
The UK television sitcom “Last of the Summer Wine” began its first regular series run on BBC One, following a pilot in Comedy Playhouse on January 4. Created by Roy Clarke, it would run for 37 years with 31 series and 294 episodes, concluding on August 29, 2010.
Dmitri Shostakovich’s 14th String Quartet premieres.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Jan Stenerud booted four field goals in the first half, one after time had run out, and Mike Livingston hooked up with Otis Taylor on a 24‐yard touchdown pass in the third quarter tonight as the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Chicago Bears, 19‐7, in a National Football League game. The victory moved the Chiefs into a first‐place tie with Oakland, both with 5‐3‐1 won‐lost‐tied marks, in the Western Division of the American Football Conference. The Bears fell to 3–6. The loss wrapped up the N.F.C. Central Division title for Minnesota. The game was rough‐and-tumble, with several fights. The most noticeable was between Chicago’s Dick Butkus and Kansas City’s Ed Budde in the fourth quarter.
Though Stenerud provided the scoring, a running back, Ed Podolak, put the Norwegian kicker into position with 134 yards on 28 carries. Kansas City’s touchdown culminated a five‐play, 47‐yard drive. Livingston, subbing for the injured Len Dawson, found Taylor wide open behind Chicago’s cornerback, Charlie Ford, for the touchdown strike with 3:31 left in the third period. The Bears came back with a 70‐yard drive of their own. The big play was a 39‐yard pass to Carl Garrett. Douglass also broke loose on a 17‐yard run before Garrett turned the corner on a 9‐yard touchdown run with 45 seconds to go in the quarter.
Chicago Bears 7, Kansas City Chiefs 19
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Born:
Radha Mitchell, Australian actress (“Pitch Black”, “Silent Hill”, “Olympus Has Fallen”), in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Melanie Gaffin, American actress (Cheryl-“Whiz Kids”), in Santa Monica, California.
J.D. Smart, MLB pitcher (Montreal Expos, Texas Rangers), in San Saba, Texas.
Died:
General Waclaw Stachiewicz, 78, chief of staff of the Polish Army from 1935 until the division of Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, died in exile in Canada.
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