Martial law is in full swing throughout Greece because of bloody antigovernment demonstrations. Some rioting continued today. The uprising began at the Greek Polytechnic Institute in Athens, where the students and military clashed repeatedly. Many people were injured during the clashes. Greek demonstrators defied the martial law imposed yesterday and clashed with police in scattered fights throughout the Athens area. Policemen fired handguns into the air and used tear gas to disperse hostile crowds. A few times during the morning and again in early afternoon, army tanks moved into trouble spots, but did not fire their guns.
At a meeting in Vienna, the oil ministers and administrators of the Arab states said they would postpone their plans for a 5 percent reduction in oil shipments to eight of the nine Common Market nations. Arab oil-producing nations have decided to delay the 5% reduction of oil exports to European countries in the Common Market from December to January. The action was taken in appreciation for the Common Market countries’ stand in the Mideast war. The oil blockade will continue against the Netherlands and the United States, however. Romania announced the start of fuel rationing, and Belgium has banned all Sunday driving. Citizens must use bicycles or public transportation, with some exceptions.
Internationally, Japan has launched an emergency campaign to conserve fuel. American and European representatives will meet in Paris to discuss oil pooling possibilities. In Vienna, Arab oil producers and western oil companies will meet for the first time since the Mideast fighting stopped. The POW exchange between Israel and Egypt is expected to end this week, but cease-fire talks will continue including a mutual pullback of troops.
An agreement between West Germany and Czechoslovakia that would open the way to the establishment of diplomatic relations between them has been withdrawn by the Czechoslovaks, apparently because of pressure from East Germany, according to Communist and Western sources. Because Prague reneged on terms negotiated in principle earlier this month, the sources said, Chancellor Willy Brandt’s long‐postponed trip to Czechoslovakia to eliminate the legacies of World War II is in doubt.
At least six persons were wounded in a wave of bombings during the final hours before a 43-day Christmas cease-fire called by the Ulster Volunteer Force, Northern Ireland’s main Protestant guerrilla organization. The group, which is fighting to keep Northern Ireland British, warned that any of its members who broke the truce would face “severe physical punishment or execution.” It was not clear whether the rash of bombs was the work of extremist Protestants or Catholics.
Austrian authorities have set the end of November as the deadline for closing the transit center for emigrating Jews at Schönau Castle near Vienna. The government ordered the camp closed seven weeks ago but allowed it to stay open until other arrangements could be made for Jews passing through Vienna on their way to Israel from Russia. Austria agreed to close the camp in exchange for four hostages kidnaped by Arab guerrillas.
Seven Roman Catholic priests who demonstrated in prison and then began a hunger strike 12 days ago were transferred from their special priests’ penitentiary in Zamora to the Carabanchel Prison Hospital in Madrid, church sources said. The sources reported the priests were given food, then taken in ambulances to Madrid. Their condition was described as serious. The move brought to an end demonstrations and sit-ins of solidarity by clerics and laymen in the Basque country.
Inadequate, careless medical care in the Soviet republic of Georgia is driving dissatisfied patients out of their hospital beds, a Georgian Communist Party newspaper charged. Abuses in the profession were described as widespread, ranging from careless hygiene to bribes to enter medical school-resulting in an unspecified number of “human victims. Part of the problem may stem from Soviet doctors’ relatively low pay. A medical school graduate can expect to start earning about $140 a month, and once established, he earns about the same as a skilled factory worker.
Israel and Egypt are expected to meet this week to try and solidify the cease-fire in the Middle East. In Jerusalem, a five-man commission has been organized to investigate Israel’s preparedness at the beginning of the war.
Almost a month after the cease‐fire ordered by the Security Council, the authorities and citizens of Cairo maintain a stance of determined psychological mobilization.
Large quantities of new Soviet weapons have been put into service by the Syrian armed forces, which are offering Western suppliers cash in advance for quick delivery of radar and other air‐defense equipment.
Israel’s first premier, David Ben-Gurion, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and is in serious condition.
Colonel Muammar el‐Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, arrived in Belgrade for hurriedly arranged talks with President Tito. Colonel Qaddafi was reported eager to discuss an arrangement with the Yugoslavs for the organization and training of Libyan armed forces in exchange for generous deliveries from Libya’s enormous oil reserves.
Mrs. Cora Weiss and Don Luce, two American peace activists who spent the past month traveling Communist areas of South Vietnam, North Vietnam and Laos, said in Hong Kong that they were convinced no more U.S. prisoners of war are being held in North Vietnam or Laos. The only exception is Emmet Kay, an American civilian pilot captured last spring and held in Sam Nuea, the Communist capital of Laos. More than 300 U.S. servicemen are listed as missing in Laos.
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai accused the South Vietnamese of attacking Viet Cong-controlled areas, refusing to release detained civilians and trampling on democratic rights of the South Vietnamese people. But his accusations of violations of the cease-fire avoided any criticism of the U.S. role in Vietnam. He spoke at a state banquet in honor of Viet Cong leader Nguyễn Hữu Thọ who arrived in Peking for a week’s visit. On Cambodia, the Chinese leader said, “We have always held that the Cambodian question should be settled by the Cambodian people themselves, free from foreign interference.”
A second Soviet aircraft carrier is being built at Nikolayev on the Black Sea, and United States and British intelligence sources report that the Russians plan to construct carriers of another, larger class as part of their expanding naval program. Naval sources in Washington and London felt that the growth of a Soviet carrier force represents a significant shift in the global balance of power. The Russians are said to be moving from a fleet built to frustrate American operations to one capable of projecting Soviet power across the oceans of the world. Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., the Chief of Naval Operations, recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee that its members would see the day when the Soviet Union has a larger carrier fleet than the United States. The United States Navy has 15 carriers now but is reducing the number to 12.
Scrambling to get back on schedule today the Skylab 4 astronauts sorted out and stowed thousands of items they will need for their three months aboard the orbiting space station. “It’s going pretty slowly,” said the mission commander, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald P. Carr of the Marines. “The stowage is pretty difficult. We’re doing a lot of on‐the‐job training.” Colonel Carr and his crewmates, Dr. Edward G. Gibson, a civilian scientist, and Lieutenant Colonel William R. Pogue of the Air Force, worked to move several hundred pounds of food, film, recording tape and tools from the command ship, into the 118‐foot‐long Skylab. They also started a series of medical experiments that may provide new data about the effects of long‐term missions in space. Dr. Gibson, a solar physicist who acts as the crew doctor, took blood from himself and his crewmates and then processed the samples for study later on the ground. The flight controller, Neil Hutchinson, said the crew got behind schedule in activation of the space station yesterday when Colonel Pogue suffered motion sickness and was unable to do his assigned job. Colonel Carr took over the chores.
Six American astronauts arrived in Moscow today for training with Soviet astronauts for the 1975 Soviet-American joint space flight, the Tass press agency said. They were the commander of the Apollo ship, Thomas P. Stafford; his crewmates, Donald K. Slayton and Vance Brand, and three backup astronauts, Alan L. Bean, Jack R. Lousma and Ronald E. Evans. They will make themselves familiar with the Soviet Soyuz craft and conduct training exercises with the Russians, United States space officials said. Eight Soviet astronauts participated in two weeks of training in July at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
President Nixon continued his Southern tour in an attempt to help rid himself of the Watergate stigma. In Macon, Georgia, the President was happy as he was greeted by a friendly crowd at the 90th birthday celebration of former congressman Carl Vinson. A small group of demonstrators appeared at Mercer University, but most students were enthusiastic about Nixon’s visit. The President hoped to prove that his supporters still exist; questions remain, however.
Former Teamster President James R. Hoffa said the union had contributed far more to President Nixon’s reelection campaign than the $18,000 previously reported, according to the latest issue of Newsweek magazine. Hoffa did not disclose a precise figure but said it was higher than $18,000 and lower than $175,000 — the figure he mentioned in a civil court deposition last summer. Hoffa said he had been told that Teamster business agents were assessed $1,000 each and that Las Vegas “friends” who had borrowed from the union’s pension fund also were urged to contribute.
Federal investigators say they have learned that on March 6, 1972, a lawyer for the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation delivered to the White House a set of what later became known as the “politically sensitive” documents in the I. T. T. affair. The documents consist of letters and memos by I. T. T. executives detailing meetings with high Administration officials and are considered central to the investigation of possible perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the settlement in 1971 of antitrust suits against I. T. T.
A hearing for President Nixon’s friend C. Arnholt Smith begins next week. The financier is in trouble with the IRS. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Smith’s dealings as well. Smith believes he is being targeted because he helped raise money for the Nixon re-election campaign in 1972.
During the upcoming week: technical experts will begin listening to the White House tapes to determine possible tampering. President Nixon will address the nation’s Republican governors in Memphis, Tennessee. The Senate plans to vote on a fuel conservation bill.
Under intensified Government pressure to provide a sharply increasing share of energy for an energy‐short nation, the United States nuclear‐power industry this week heard two forecasts: for the long term, sunny; for the short term, cloudy. At the annual meeting from Monday through Thursday last week of the Atomic Industrial Forum, the nuclear‐power industry’s trade association, the accent was on the sunny long term. There was enthusiasm for President Nixon’s call for freedom from imported energy sources by 1980.
Proposals were heard for further accelerating the already ambitious construction goals for today’s “light water” nuclear reactors. Fanfares surrounded the signing of a key contract in the program to open up virtually limitless supplies of nuclear fuel through the development of the so-called “breeder” nuclear power plant. The plant is to be built near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and is scheduled to begin operating in 1980. The near term was discussed more quietly. Industry leaders, including Commissioner William O. Doub of the Atomic Energy Commission, agonized over how they could tidy up procedures for building and licensing the plants already ordered for completion by 1980 and solve some extensive and embarrassing reliability problems in the plants already operating.
Skyline High School in Dallas, Texas, the first “magnet school” in the country, seems to have few of the typical modern high school’s problems. Nearly half of the students are bussed in, but no racial or drug problems exist. Principal Frank Gusek knows most of the students and teachers on a one-to-one basis. The Skyline complex is huge, but there are no complaints from students. Areas of vocational interest as opposed to college preparatory courses fill Skyline’s curriculum, though fundamental skills such as reading and writing are emphasized as well. Many Skyline teachers were hired directly from industry with no previous teaching experience. Aviation mechanics, diesel mechanics and a day care center are all offered at Skyline, which is a practical, no-nonsense type school.
Educators from around the country are watching Skyline closely, and they feel that some problems do exist including unlicensed (and non-unionized) teachers, relatively low salaries and extra work hours.
Florida’s runaway development binge, a phenomenon achieved by lax laws and technological advances that subdued and transformed a wild subtropical peninsula, is rapidly moving the state toward a showdown over the basic issue of property rights. By next spring powerful forces, are expected to be locked in a struggle over the extent to which the state can regulate and set limits on real estate development.
Amtrak will not be running with a full load of cars over Thanksgiving. Airlines will also be affected by the fuel shortage, causing problems for travelers.
A Texas official told the Coast Guard that he had discovered the wreckage of a vessel on a desolate beach 20 miles south of the mouth of the Rio Grande. The description matched that of a leaking schooner that left Port Isabel, Texas, last Thursday with 12 to 15 persons aboard. The debris included the hull and superstructure of a wooden vessel, six life jackets and a 12-foot dinghy. The Port Isabel navigation. director, W. C. McConnell, said a 120-foot schooner, the Fair Morse, had left port on a trip to Vera Cruz, Mexico. It was not certain, however, that the wreckage sighted was actually that of the Fair Morse. McConnell suggested that the boats’ occupants “were a bunch of hippie types,” possibly from California.”
Four boys ranging in age from 14 to 17 were found shot to death in Gitche Manitou Park, Iowa, about 10 miles south of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Police said the shotgun killings occurred last night. The victims were not identified. The Iowa Crime Bureau, the Lyon County sheriff’s office and Sioux Falls police said they were searching for a dark blue van believed to have belonged to one of the boys.
Archeologists reported in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that they had uncovered part of the ancient fortress in Sardis, Turkey, that was stormed by Persian King Cyrus when he dethroned Croesus in 547 BC. A 30-foot-long wall of the fort — famed in antiquity for its strength — was uncovered by a team from Cornell and Harvard. Professor George M.A. Hanfmann of Harvard, leader of the expedition, said portions of the wall were 10 feet thick, had traces of bastions for archers and showed sophisticated military architecture.
NFL Football:
Joe Namath, taking over with five minutes to play after a seven-game absence, rallied the Jets within a foot of the tying touchdown yesterday in Cincinnati, but time ran out at the goal line and the Bengals won, 20—14. Namath, who separated his right shoulder last September 23, moved the Jets from their 21‐yard line by connecting on four passes. But with 19 seconds to play and no timeouts left for New York, Cliff McClain’s attempted rush into the end zone from a foot out was stopped. As the Jets tried to quickly line up for one last play, an illegal procedure penalty was called, and the game ended on the offensive penalty, with the Jets left confused and fuming.
At Yale Bowl, the Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 24—13, and ended a seven‐game losing streak. Norm Snead guided the Giants to their second victory after replacing Randy Johnson, the starting quarterback, in the second quarter. Ron Johnson plunged one yard for a touchdown, then caught a 45-yard scoring pass from Norm Snead that broke a tie and carried New York to the victory. The Giants (2-7-1), were guilty of numerous errors that enabled the Cardinals (3-6-1) to take a 10—3 halftime lead. But in the second half, the Giants’ defense overwhelmed rookie quarterback Gary Keithley and the rest of the Cardinals.
Los Angeles easily beat the San Francisco 49ers, 31—13. All the Rams needed to score their seventh straight victory over San Francisco was the passing combination of John Hadl and Harold Jackson. That pair connected on three touchdown aerials of 25, 22, and 57 yards. The 49ers, champions of the Western Division the last three seasons, were eliminated from title contention while the Rams stayed comfortably on top with their eighth victory in 10 games. Jackson, the league’s leading receiver last season with the Philadelphia Eagles, gathered in his 12th touchdown pass of the season and has four games to equal Elroy Hirsch’s club record of 17 set in 1951. Had creased his total of scoring passes to 17. Charlie Stukes, the Los Angeles cornerback, set up 10 Ram points with two interceptions of passes thrown by Joe Reed, San Francisco’s starting quarterback for the second straight week.
The Kansas City Chiefs routed the Houston Oilers, 38—14. Winning for the third game in a row with Mike Livingston replacing Len Dawson at quarterback, the Chiefs doubled their previous high score of the season of 19 points. Livingston, a six-year professional, threw scoring passes of 5 yards to Gary Butler and 24 yards to Otis Taylor and then scampered 3 yards into the end zone himself. Willie Lanier set up another Chief touchdown by intercepting a Lynn Dickey pass and returning it 29 yards to the Oller 1-yard line. On the next play, Willie Ellison scored. Dickey passed to Bob Gresham on a 62-yard touchdown play and Fred Willis plunged over from the 1-yard line for Houston’s points.
The Oakland Raiders lost a defensive struggle to the Cleveland Browns, 7—3. The Browns dropped Oakland from first to third in the Western Division and raised themselves within 1½ games of Pittsburgh, the Central Division leader. The Cleveland front four of Joe Jones, Walter Johnson, Jerry Sherk and Nick Roman shut off the Raiders running game, harassed Ken Stabler, the Oakland quarterback, and generally controlled the tempo of the game. The only touchdown came at the end of an 80-yard drive that consumed 13 plays in the second quarter. Mike Phipps tossed 7 yards to Fair Hooker in the end zone, his fifth completion in seven attempts during the march. The Browns shut out the Raiders for 55 minutes and 14 seconds before George Blanda kicked a 23-yard field goal. He had missed from 43 yards midway in the third quarter. In the final minute, Oakland marched to the Cleveland 38-yard line, but time expired.
Enjoying his best passing day in three professional seasons, Jim Plunket rallied the New England Patriots from a 24—9 deficit early in the third quarter to win, 33—24. The former Stanford star completed 18 of 32 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns. It was the first time a New England quarterback had gained more than 300 yards since Babe Parill did it in 1966 against the New York Jets. Plunkett’s second scoring toss — a 63-yard connection to Reggie Rucker — lifted the Patriots to a 26—24 lead in the last period. On the following kickoff, Ray Hamilton of New England recovered a fumble on the Green Bay 26. Four plays later, Plunket clinched the triumph by diving over from the 1-yard line
The Dallas Cowboys got revenge for a 30—16 defeat by Philadelphia three weeks ago and stayed in a tie with Washington by beating Philadelphia convincingly, 31—10. Walt Garrison was the key performer, running 53 yards to set up a 1-yard touchdown sneak by Roger Staubach; grabbing a 2-yard scoring pass from Staubach, and hammering across the goal line himself from the 1-yard line. The Eagles had taken a 10—0 lead on an 80-yard touchdown pass from Roman Gabriel to Charles Young and a 48-yard field goal by Tom Dempsey. But Gabriel suffered a bruised elbow early in the second quarter and spent the rest of the game on the sidelines.
Gary Huff of the Chicago Bears replaced Bobby Douglass, who was injured in the second quarter, and had a rough afternoon as quarterback as the Bears were blown out by the Lions, 30—7. He suffered four interceptions, including a 95-yard return for a touchdown by Dick Jauron. It was the longest scoring interception return of the season in the National Conference. Jauron’s first professional interception and touchdown broke a 7—7 tie and propelled the Lions to an easy victory, their 10th in the last 11 meetings with Chicago. Bill Munson connected with Larry Walton on touchdown passes of 3 and 26 yards and Alte Taylor tallied on a 16-yard run. The lone Bear score resulted from Carl Garrett’s 1-yard smash Dick Butkus, Chica go’s famed middle linebacker, was injured and failed to play for only the second time in his nine-year career.
The Denver Broncos, the National Football League’s only team that has never experienced a winning season, came closer to that goal today by upsetting the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the league powerhouses. The score was 23—13 and it was merely the Steelers’ second loss in 10 games. So how did they beat the indifferent Steelers? Two lost Pittsburgh fumbles set them up for a field goal, one of three kicked by Jim Turner, and a touchdown, scored on a 2‐yard pass from Charlie Johnson to Riley Odoms, the tight end, in the fourth quarter. That was the game’s last score and the decisive one. Odoms, a huge (6 feet 4 inches, 230 pounds), adroit athlete emerging in his second pro year as one of the best tight ends, caught six passes and the old pro, Floyd Little, ran and ran. Little carried the ball 27 times for 88 yards, without a lot of blocking, and his longest was a 10‐yard sweep into the end zone for the game’s first touchdown at the start of the second half. That put Denver ahead, 13—6, and gave the Broncos the idea that they could beat Pittsburgh, which only Cincinnati had done previously.
The Washington Redskins defeated Baltimore for the first time since 1959 as Curt Knight kicked five field goals, three set up by Colt turnovers, to prevail, 22—14. Knight, scoring on kicks of 35, 16, 37, 42 and 29 yards, has now booted nine field goals in his last two games, hitting also on 14 of his last 16 attempts. Washington’s only other score, a 1-yard plunge by Larry Brown, got the Redskins off to a 7—0 lead as Dallas for first place in the they remained in a tie with National Conference Eastern Division. Baltimore, losing for the eighth time in 10 games, tallied on a 1-yard run by Don McCauley and a 4-yard pass from Marty Domres to Cotton Speyer.
The Miami Dolphins had an opportunity to clinch their third straight division title yesterday and methodically, as always, went to work. Looking like the defending champions of the National Football League, which they are, Coach Don Shula’s Dolphins overpowered the Bills, 17—0, at Buffalo. They are now assured of first place in the American Conference’s Eastern Division. Winning for the ninth time in 10 games, the Dolphins had trouble containing Buffalo’s running game as O. J. Simpson and Jim Braxton each gained more than 100 yards the first time in 46 games that Miami had allowed two opposing runners to surpass that total. But the Dolphins stiffened each time their goal line was threatened, once turning back the Bills from two feet away on fourth down. Miami got the scoring over quickly, putting 7 points on the board in the first quarter and 10 more in the second period. Culminating an 80-yard drive that took 18 plays, Larry Csonka plunged into the end zone from the 1-yard line at 8 minutes 55 seconds of the opening quarter. Ten seconds into the second period, Garo Yepremian kicked a 39-yard field goal. Mike Kolen set up Miami’s other touchdown by picking off a Joe Ferguson pass and returning it from the Miami 25-yard line to the Buffalo. 40. Bob Griese passed 22 yards to Jim Mandich and then hit Paul Warfield in the end zone with less than two minutes left in the half. Simpson gained 120 yards to push his total for 10 games to 1,323. Last season, he led the league with 1,251 yards for 14 contests. Braxton complemented Simpson’s dashes with 119 yards.
Making their second start under new coach Ron Waller, the San Diego Chargers snapped a seven-game losing streak, beating the Saints, 17—14. They jumped to a 10—0 lead on a 28-yard field goal by Ray Wersching and an 84-yard punt return for a touchdown by Ron Smith After the Saints had narrowed the score to 10—7 late in the third quarter on a 9-yard pass from Archie Manning to Jubilee Dunbar, San Diego pulled away when Bob Howard intercepted a Manning pass at the New Orleans 34-yard line and returned it 25 yards. Bob Holmes, then plunged over from the 1-yard line with 8:20 left.
New York Jets 14, Cincinnati Bengals 20
St. Louis Cardinals 13, New York Giants 24
San Francisco 49ers 13, Los Angeles Rams 31
Houston Oilers 14, Kansas City Chiefs 38
Cleveland Browns 7, Oakland Raiders 3
Green Bay Packers 24, New England Patriots 33
Philadelphia Eagles 10, Dallas Cowboys 31
Detroit Lions 30, Chicago Bears 7
Denver Broncos 23, Pittsburgh Steelers 13
Baltimore Colts 14, Washington Redskins 22
Miami Dolphins 17, Buffalo Bills 0
New Orleans Saints 14, San Diego Chargers 17
Died:
Sir Gerald Nabarro, 60, controversial UK politician
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