The Soviet note that led to a precautionary alert of United States forces around the world on the night of October 24 carried an implied threat rather than an actual threat of the dispatch of Soviet troops to the Suez war zone. “We strongly urge that we both send forces to enforce the cease‐fire and, if you do not, we may be obliged to consider acting alone,” the Soviet note said, according to two officials who have read it.
The Israeli Cabinet met for four and a half hours last night to debate Israel’s next move in the deadlocked negotiations with Egypt over the withdrawal of forces along the Suez Canal. It has become increasingly clear that the deadlock involves much more than technicalities about the October 22 ceasefire line.
Colonel Muammar el‐Qaddafi, the Libyan revolutionary leader, depicted a virtual alliance between his country, which has great oil wealth, and nonaligned. Marxist Yugoslavia. He ended three days of talks with President Tito and other Yugoslav leaders, and seemed pleased with the outcome of his reported bid for weapons and expertise to build a strong military force.
Four bombs exploded at various locations in Londonderry, North Ireland, but no injuries were reported. In Belfast, Protestant leader Brian Faulkner won a crucial vote of confidence in his Unionist Party council, enabling him to press on with negotiations to set up a Northern Ireland government in which Roman Catholics will have a voice. But Protestant extremists in the Ulster Volunteer Force vowed to kill Protestant politicians who voted to give Catholics more power.
Three leading Greek politicians were put under police guard tonight after being repeatedly accused in Government statements of instigating the students revolt in Athens. George Mavros, acting leader of the Center Union party, telephoned newspaper correspondents from his country home north of Athens tonight to say he had been put under house arrest. He said he had been told by Panayotis Canellopoulos, a former Premier and leader of the rightist National Radical Union, that he and his wife had been forbidden to leave their downtown apartment. Yesterday, Mr. Canellopoulos had called for the formation of a government of national unity to return the country to democratic normality.
Meanwhile, in Athens the army relaxed its tight security grip today as the threat of renewed disorders receded. Curfew time was switched from 7 P.M. to 10 P.M. in the province of Athens by order of General Demetrios Zagorianakos, the chief of the armed forces. The general has also been in charge of the country’s internal security since President Papadopoulos imposed martial law on Saturday. The 52 heavy American tanks that were rushed to Athens from central Greece to help the local armored garrison and the police quell a revolt of students and workers against President Papadopoulos’s one‐man rule have now returned to base. A few tanks were seen today at key Government buildings and intersections, but tank patrols were reduced. Soldiers and police cadets continued to guard the President’s office on Constitution Square. Private traffic resumed in a two‐square‐mile area when it became clear that the student and worker demonstrators who have been using hit‐and‐run tactics to harass the regime would not appear today.
Investigators accused 49 Naples area officials of responsibility for the cholera outbreak that hit southern Italy last summer. The charges came as the first round of police investigations into the causes of the epidemic, in which 22 persons died, ended. The president of the Autonomous Company of the Port of Naples and the provincial doctor were charged with permitting shellfish to be cultivated illegally in polluted waters, and other offenses.
Six Roman Catholic priests transferred to Carabanchel Prison in Madrid after being on a hunger strike for 13 days in a special detention center have been punished with 80 days solitary confinement, informed sources said. Originally in the prison’s hospital wing, the priests now are said to be in individual cells and eating a special diet, having given up their hunger strike. Their protest was staged to support demands that Zamora Jail — exclusively for Catholic priests convicted of political offenses — be closed.
Soviet secret police grilled the wife of nuclear physicist Andrei D. Sakharov Monday and Tuesday in connection with passing documents to the West, dissident sources said. She was told the police were investigating the case of Gavrill Superfin and Viktor Khaustov, both under arrest for dissident activities. She admitted during the interview she had sent abroad the prison diary of Eduard Kuznetsov, one of those convicted in the 1970 Leningrad hijacking conspiracy trial.
The Cambodian government ordered the reorganization of its air force after the bombing Monday of the presidential palace, the second such attack in eight months. President Lon Nol said the bombing was an isolated incident involving only one man. Air Force Lieutenant Pech Lim Kuong dropped four 250-pound bombs from his T-28 on the palace grounds, killing three persons and wounding at least 10. He escaped in the plane.
A military search party found the wings and tail of an Air Vietnam twin-propeller DC-3 missing since Saturday with 23 persons aboard, a Saigon command spokesman said. The search continued for the rest of the plane and its occupants. Richard W. Thompson, an American representative of the American Friends Service Committee, was among those aboard the plane. Apparently, the airliner, on a flight from Saigon to Quảng Ngãi, overshot its destination.
A dozen men, including three Americans from Philadelphia, landed on the east coast of Australia after an 8,500-mile voyage across the South Pacific aboard three balsa wood rafts. Vital Alsar, a 40-year-old Spaniard who led the 175-day expedition, had crossed the Pacific twice before by raft. The three Americans are Thomas Ward, Michael Fitzgibbons and Thomas McCormick all 23 years old.
The Chilean military regime has been authorized $52 million in credits to buy U.S. wheat and corn, Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz has disclosed. The $52 million consists of two credit allowances, with the most recent one — allowing Chile to buy $28 million in feed corn — posted quietly last week at the Department of Agriculture. Butz cited diplomatic and strategic reasons in explaining why the credit was extended to the new regime after it had been withheld to the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.
An overcrowded bus skidded off a mountain road and plunged 140 feet down a ravine near Chalma, 50 miles southwest of Mexico City. The Red Cross said 15 persons were killed and 43 were injured. Rescuers were on the scene conducting a search.
Edward G. Gibson, Skylab 3 astronaut‐scientist, said today that lack of gravity in the eight‐room space vehicle had disoriented the crew and even made tying shoelaces a chore. Mr. Gibson’s report on troubles with adjusting to weightlessness came as he, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald P. Carr of the Marines and Lieutenant Colonel William R. Pogue of the Air Force spent the fifth day of their 12‐week mission conducting medical tests to make sure they were fit for a “walk” in space on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Gibson and Colonel Pogue are scheduled to go outside of the spacecraft for 6½ hours on the holiday to reload film in solar cameras and to make repairs to the big space station. Mr. Gibson reported in a taped conversation to doctors that he sometimes did not recognize where he was in the 114‐foot-long station. He said that on earth, people let gravity bend them to do things but in space astronauts have to consciously think about it.
The Senate Rules Committee unanimously approved the nomination of Gerald R. Ford as Vice President of the United States. The nomination now goes to the Senate floor, where a vote is scheduled Tuesday. The committee’s approval by five Democrats and four Republicans would seem to indicate certain Senate floor approval. Committee chairman Howard Cannon announced that the full Senate will vote next week. The House Judiciary Committee heard from former lobbyist Robert Winter-Berger regarding charges he has made against Ford. Opposition to Ford exists among committee Democrats. Final House action is not likely until next month.
The nation is learning of the government’s possible plans to deal with the fuel shortage. Speaking at the conference of Republican governors in Memphis, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton called for reductions in the use of automobiles, home heating fuels, commercial fuels, utility fuel, industrial oil and jet fuel. White House energy director John Love assured the governors that decisions will be made quickly. Love also said that the fuel shortage could last three to five years.
Well‐placed Administration sources said that President Nixon would prohibit all Sunday sales of gasoline, but that the ban was unlikely before December 9. In another fuel shortage development, the Department of the Interior was preparing to publish next week proposed regulations that would formally authorize a 15 percent reduction in heating oil deliveries to homes and apartment houses and to commercial and industrial users.
Some U.S. economists believe that the fuel shortage is due to lack of refining facilities. Japan’s industries have cut back oil use 10%, and the government has also banned post-midnight television broadcasting. Thailand’s king requested that government houses not be lighted for his birthday. One couple in Bell Plain, Minnesota, wrapped their concrete home in plastic to save heat. Russell Peterson, President Nixon’s nominee to head the Environmental Quality Council, believes that a food shortage will prove to be the real worldwide crisis and the “zero population growth” drive should be led by the United States.
Home heating and lighting bills are climbing across the country and more increases are likely before the end of winter. A survey around the country has found that consumers are beginning to turn down thermostats, but are annoyed because there is no formal rationing system, and that local fuel dealers may be deciding who gets fuel and who does not.
The Ford Motor Company reported that the shift to smaller cars has cost the company money. Ford requested an immediate 5% price increase from the Cost of Living Council. Chrysler appeared before the council with a request for a similar increase.
In Memphis, President Nixon briefed Republican governors on Watergate. He and the governors held a closed-door session to discuss problems. Governor Winfield Dunn stated afterwards that the President told them there are no other “bombs” waiting to be dropped on the American people. President Nixon assured the nation’s Republican governors that he would clear up the public doubts with the release of detailed information about Watergate, his personal finances and other charges of scandal in the White House. The Governors said they had heard few fresh facts in their meeting with Mr. Nixon, but all of them said they were cheered by his confident bearing and extended “candid” answers.
Yesterday pollster George Gallup reported that Watergate will hurt Republican re-election chances. Party chairman George Bush said that he believes Watergate will have little effect on upcoming elections, and he claimed that mail being sent to Capitol Hill seems to be favoring the President more now. CBS noted that the total volume of mail received by the President has dropped.
An independent survey commissioned by CBS revealed that the American public has more confidence in the press than it does in the White House. Television reporters were regarded as the fairest and most accurate members of the news media. The Opinion Research Organization conducted the poll.
The National News Council stated that the White House hasn’t responded to its request for specific charges by President Nixon against the press.
New Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski continues to seek new tapes from the White House. Jaworski intends to subpoena the tapes if they are not turned over to him.
The Senate Judiciary Committee decided to allow the full Senate to resolve the constitutional tangle that is keeping Attorney General nominee William Saxbe from accepting the office.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the Mideast situation. Chairman William Fulbright said that the outlook for peace is encouraging.
John Scali, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, underwent open heart surgery in Phoenix, Arizona.
The former U.S. ambassador to Laos, G. McMurtrie Godley, allegedly made money from U.S. surplus supplies in Laos. A House committee reported that no evidence against Godley exists.
On the Senate floor, Democratic leader Mike Mansfield read a moving memorial to John F. Kennedy on the 10th anniversary of his death.
In Forest City, Iowa, most citizens work for Winnebago Motor Homes. One-third of the stockholders in the company live in Forest City. Because of gasoline shortages, the stock has hit rock bottom. The price of the stock is at the mercy of big traders in New York City. Gas station owner Chuck Davis noted that people with money have the most control over the stock. Farmer Karl Klages thinks the little man has washed out of the stock market. With the small investor driven away, the stock market doesn’t work very well.
“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” premiered on CBS.
Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old drummer from Muscatine, Iowa, became part of the rock band The Who for one evening after coming from the audience to replace regular drummer Keith Moon, who had passed out from drugs and alcohol. The Who had been performing a concert near rock concert near Oakland, California. For one song, only Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend were available to play. Townshend asked the audience, “Can anybody play the drums?” and added, “I need somebody really good!”. Halpin finished out the concert.
The stock market had its second consecutive sharp drop yesterday in heavy trading. Declines on the New York Stock Exchange outnumbered gains by nine to one, with 1,454 stocks down and only 161 issues up. The Dow‐Jones industrial average plunged 17.76 points to 844.90, its lowest closing level since Nov. 30, 1971.
The stock market slump is being caused by the fear of a recession. Analysts believe that the U.S. economy looks bad now, and the forecast for 1974 is even worse because of the energy crisis. Brokers admit that their clients are extremely worried and fearful of holding stock. The stock market drop has even pinched the little guy.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 844.90 (-17.76, -2.06%).
Born:
Saverio Rocca, Australian NFL punter (Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins), in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Brad Keeney, NFL defensive tackle (New York Jets), in Augusta, Georgia.
Brandon Kolb, MLB pitcher (San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers), in Oakland, California.
Died:
Allan Sherman (stage name for Allan G. Copelon), 48, American comedian known for his parodies of well-known songs, died of respiratory failure from emphysema.
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