Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain named the 65-year-old Interior Minister, Carlos Arias Navarro, who has a long record in law enforcement, as the new Premier and successor to Adm. Luis Carrero Blanco, who was assassinated December 20. A few hours before the appointment became official, the Tribunal of Public Order, a special political court, gave a striking example of how firmly the Franco regime intended to defend itself after the assassination of Admiral Carrero Blanco, one of its key figures, by announcing prison terms ranging from 12 to 20 years for 10 labor organizers who had been condemned for leading underground “workers’ commissions.”
Soviet officials took the position that their stand in the latest controversy surrounding Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had already been made known and they declined to say specifically what measures might be taken either against Mr. Solzhenitsyn or his foreign publishers. The Soviet press has not run a word about the new book “The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956,” which came out Friday as the Soviet Union was preparing for a long New Year weekend.
A small arms battle that lasted five hours and 40 minutes was among 40 violations of the Egyptian‐Israeli cease‐fire reported today by the United Nations Emergency Force. According to the United Nations deputy spokesman in Cairo, Birger Hallden, the fighting broke out on Thursday about nine miles northwest of Kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez Road. The marker, between Egyptian and Israeli lines, is 63 miles from Cairo. The spokesman said that the other violations included an artillery duel west of Ismailia that lasted an hour and 10 minutes, a two‐and‐a‐half‐hour tank‐gun battle in the Sinai about nine miles east of Ismailia, and a variety of other clashes involving small arms, machine guns, mortars, tanks and artillery.
An unmanned Israeli observation plane was shot down by surface‐to‐air missiles on the Suez Canal front today, an army spokesman announced. He said the plane had been flying over Israeli‐held territory when was struck from within Egypt.
The Arab League is sending a special envoy to the United States to put the Arab case before the American people and to try to bridge what the envoy described at a news conference in Beirut as the “gap in Arab‐United States dialogue.” The league’s representative will be Dr. Clovis Maksoud, a 46‐year‐old Lebanese who was educated in the United States. He plans to spend three months here starting January 7.
Investigators for the Palestine Liberation Organization joined Kuwaiti police in questioning five Arabs who killed 32 persons in an attack at Rome Airport and the hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner, Kuwaiti sources said. The PLO, political arm of the Arab guerrilla movement, is expected to help recommend what should be done with the five terrorists. The newspaper Al-Siyassah said the hijackers would probably stand trial before a Palestinian court in Syria.
Two armed policemen stand beside an unmarked door in Tehran, Iran. Once inside the courtyard, behind a high cement wall, visitors are frisked, carefully identified and escorted into the building. The Israeli Mission here has an unlisted telephone number and struggles to maintain what a European diplomat called “an invisible profile.” Yet the Israeli presence in Iran — like the delicate link between the two nations — has stirred discussion and rumor among diplomats, controversy among Iranians and deep anger from Arab countries, bespeaking Iran’s tenuous political position in the Middle East.
On the one hand, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has sought to solidify his ties with moderate Arab leaders such as King Hussein of Jordan and has urged Israel to withdraw from Arab territories occupied since the 1967 war. He also encouraged measures last weekend that doubled the price of a barrel of Persian Gulf crude oil. On the other hand, Iran has refused to take part in the oil embargo, has maintained discreet links with Israel and has had a tense relationship with modern countries such as Iraq, Libya and Egypt. To the surprise of Iranians and several senior diplomats here, the Shah spoke with unusual candor last month about his relationship with Israel. He told Al Hawadess, a Beirut weekly, that there was “no contradiction” between Iran’s support for the Arabs and her economic ties with Israel.
Khmer Rouge insurgents fired two rockets into the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, hitting the palace compound of President Lon Nol and the residence of two American Embassy officials. Police said Lon Nol escaped injury. But a Cambodian soldier was killed and another wounded in the presidential compound and five Cambodian employees were injured at the villa of the U.S. officials. The Americans were at the nearby U.S. Embassy at the time of the attack.
A policeman was killed and his partner wounded when gunmen opened fire on their police car as they turned into the Belfast Protestant area of Glencairn estate to investigate a grocery store robbery. In Shankill, another Protestant district, several shooting incidents broke out after the death of a 35-year-old Protestant, Alexander Howell, was announced. British patrols came under fire 11 times and gunmen in a car riddled a police station. Howell was cut down in cross fire between gunmen and an army patrol Friday night.
The death toll from a two-week cold wave in northern India rose to 321 as temperatures dropped to their lowest level in 30 years. Nearly all the deaths, which were reported by the Indian government radio, occurred in rural areas where villagers lacked warm clothing and heating. New Delhi continued to shiver for the fourth day with night temperature falling to a record low of 34.7 degrees. A regional record low of 25 degrees was recorded in the plains at Churu in Rajasthan state.
China has offered to provide Ethiopia with heavy arms, including tanks and possibly aircraft, to offset the buildup of Soviet armament in neighboring Somalia, according to a well-informed Ethiopian government source. The Chinese have offered to send the arms almost immediately, free of charge, the source said, adding that Ethiopia was still considering the Peking proposal and had come to no decision. Acceptance would mean a major change in Addis Ababa’s traditional pro-Western foreign policy, based for 20 years on close U.S. political and military ties.
Police detained overnight the sister and niece of the late Chilean President Salvador Allende after the pair attempted to pass a package containing paintings and posters to Allende’s nephew in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Santiago, an official spokesman said. Mrs. Laura Allende and her daughter Miriam were allowed to return to the house arrest to which they were confined after the military coup in which Allende died. The nephew is Pascal Allende, a leader of the now-banned Revolutionary Movement who took refuge in the embassy following the coup.
Slightly higher new minimum wages have been approved by the Mexican government to boost the purchasing power of more than 4 million poor families battered by inflation. The new minimums, effective January 1 for a two-year period, range from $5.56 a day in the northern border state of Baja California to $1.90 in Oaxaca state near the Guatemalan border. For Mexico City, the largest urban area in the country, the new wage will be $4.10. The increases amounted to 9.5% for Baja, 8.9% for Oaxaca and 15.9% for Mexico City.
President Nixon will propose to Congress when it reconvenes the transfer of title of two U.S. airfields to Panama as part of a new policy of “modernizing the relationship” between the countries, a White House spokesman said. The President will also seek congressional authority for Panama to operate a national lottery in the Canal Zone, the spokesman said. The proposals were recommended by Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth Bunker, chief U.S. negotiator on a new Canal Zone treaty, as gestures toward bolstering relations with Panama.
The “HMO” was created in the U.S. as the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 was signed into law by U.S. President Nixon. Nixon signed a health bill that administration experts expect to have a major impact on medical care. Top health officials said the new law should help shift the emphasis on medical care to prevention of illness rather than on treatment of illness that has already developed. The new law authorizes the spending of $375 million over the next five years to help establish and evaluate health maintenance organizations throughout the country. Subscribers to such an organization would pay a pre-determined monthly or yearly fee and, in return, would be entitled to basic health care services.
Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said the United States might need to create a huge planning agency to coordinate and direct government economic policy. Such policy making is now scattered about Washington in various smaller agencies. Mr. Stein said the council had been stretched thin trying to oversee policy. “If the government is going to be as much involved in details as it’s becoming, then the concept of a little C.E.A. with 16 professionals focusing mainly on fiscal and monetary policy will be inappropriate,” he told a meeting of the American Economic Association in New York.
President and Mrs. Nixon are expected to celebrate New Year’s Eve quietly with some members of their family, White House officials said today. The Nixons’ daughter, Tricia, was awaiting the arrival of her husband, Edward F. Cox, who is expected to arrive from New York for the holiday. The Nixons’ other daughter, Julie, has just recovered from the flu and will remain at her Washington home with her husband, David Eisenhower.
A personal memorandum from the late J. Edgar Hoover has disclosed that H. R. Haldeman prompted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the White House to issue a misleading explanation of the bureau’s controversial investigation of Daniel Schorr, a newsman for the Columbia Broadcasting System. According to the Hoover memorandum and other Justice Department documents, Mr. Haldeman, while chief of the White House staff, conceived the misinformation that Mr. Schorr had come under investigation because he was being considered for a government post.
Secretary of State Kissinger heads the list of men the American people admire most in the world today, replacing President Nixon, according to the Gallup Poll. Mr. Kissinger advanced to the top spot from the fourth place position he held last year, while President Nixon fell to third place after heading the list in 1972 for the fourth consecutive year. The Rev. Billy Graham was the second highest vote getter behind Mr. Kissinger, according to the findings of the annual survey made public yesterday in Princeton, New Jersey. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts won fourth place and Vice President Ford was fifth. In announcing the 1973 findings, the poll said, “Only six times since these annual Gallup ‘Most Admired Man’ audits were begun in 1946 has the chief executive failed to win the top spot.”
Unlike some of his precedessors, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger does not believe that the nation’s highest judicial officer should preside over its courts and lawyers in lofty silence from a vantage point of austere isolation. But, more often than not over the last four years, Mr. Burger’s desire to provide activist leadership for a sedentary calling has led him to urge reforms that few among his colleagues seem eager or even willing to embrace. Most recently, the Chief Justice proposed that trial practice be recognized by the bar as a distinct and individually qualified specialty, as it is in England. This would prohibit general‐practice lawyers from appearing in court at all unless they could prove themselves competent at such duty. In the same lecture, delivered at the Fordham Law School a few weeks ago, Mr. Burger quietly dropped another startling idea: That the basic legal education should be shortened from three years to two years, with the third year to be devoted to a speciality such as trial practice.
New York State Tax Commissioner Mario A. Procaccino said yesterday that his department was “looking into” the failure of David N. Dinkins to file state tax returns over a four‐year period. He declined to give any details, saying that the law required “confidentiality” in such cases. But he noted that many factors were being considered by the department, including whether the failure to file was intentional or due to neglect. Mr. Dinkins, the first black to be named a Deputy Mayor here, withdrew his name Friday after disclosing he had not filed Federal, state or city income tax forms for four years. He had discussed the situation with Mayor‐elect Abraham D. Beame on Thursday night and the two agreed the following day that he should withdraw.
On Friday morning, before Mr. Dinkins withdrew, his accountants filed the tax returns for the years 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972 with the three tax agencies. They also paid them a total of about $15,000, which they estimated was due in unpaid taxes for the four‐year period, and paid them additional sums for penalties and interest, the accounts for which have not been disclosed. A spokesman for the Federal Internal Revenue Service said its policy was to keep anything about a person’s tax returns confidential. He said he could not discuss whether there was an investigation of the Dinkins case or any other aspect of it.
The first serious primary battle in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 25 years is shaping up in the Republican race for the Congressional seat vacated by Vice President Ford. For the first time since 1948, four candidates will seek the Republican nomination in a primary election January 15. The special election to fill the seat will be held February 18. Mr. Ford defeated the incumbent Republican Congressman in a primary 25 years ago and never again faced opposition for the seat from within the G.O.P. Although there is no voter registration by party in Michigan, the Fifth District on the western side of the state generally votes about 60 percent Republican and never gave Mr. Ford less than that in returning him to office.
Immigration investigators in New York have been put in charge of a new, countrywide effort to resolve the long-dormant cases of suspected Nazi war criminals living in the United States. They are focusing on 38 persons, according to the New York district director, Sol Marks. The effort, Mr. Marks said in an interview, involves what are believed to be the first tentative steps toward official contacts with the Soviet Union in a drive to collect evidence against some of the suspects. Almost all the cases concern post-war refugees from what was Nazi-occupied Soviet territory.
Short tempers, anger and even acts of violence flared as harried motorists cruised through the metropolitan New York area in search of hard‐to‐find gasoline. One motorist pulled a gun on a station attendant to force him to sell more gasoline, and a fuel tank with 3,000 gallons of gasoline was hijacked. Most motorists found only long waits‐or rejection‐at service stations.
Despite the fuel shortage, Times Square will be illuminated as usual on New Year’s Eve. However, the Bulova Watch Company will reduce the power usage in the huge Times Square film display by 20 percent. Similar cutbacks are planned by other companys whose signs help light up the square. Last year’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square drew 300,000. This year’s is expected to do about as well.
Jerry Livingston, Leonard Adelson and Mack David’s musical “Molly”, starring Kaye Ballard closes at Alvin Theater. NYC, after 68 performances.
Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas: Missouri 34, Auburn 17. John Moseley returned a kickoff 84 yards for a touchdown, and Missouri’s defense turned three Auburn fumbles into scores today as the Big Eight Conference eleven gained a 34—17 victory in the Sun Bowl. Moseley, who led the Big Eight in punt returns and kickoff returns this season, wrecked Auburn with his scoring jaunt as time ran out in the first half. Before Moseley broke it open, Auburn had cut a 21—3 deficit to 11 points on a 17-yard pass from Phil Gargis, a freshman quarterback, to Thomas Gossom with eight seconds left in the half. The Missouri quarterback, Ray Smith, threw touchdown passes of 2 yards to John Sharp. Ray Bybee scored on a 2‐yard plunge. Missouri’s first score came on a 35-yard halfback option pass, Chuck Link to Kelsey. Auburn, whose running game was stymied all afternoon by the tenacious Missouri defense, got its other touchdown on a 32‐yard pass from Gargis to Gossom. The opening score of the game came on a 35‐yard field goal by Auburn’s Roger Pruett.
Bluebonnet Bowl, Houston, Texas: Houston 47, Tulane 7. D. C. Nobles, a quarterback, set up three touchdowns with long passes today and ran for one as Houston chalked up a 47—7 victory over Tulane in the Astro‐Bluebonnet Bowl. The Cougars rocketed to a 21—7 half‐time lead on touchdown runs of 1 and 3 yards by Leonard Parker, fullback, and a 75‐yard tonchdown run by Marshall Johnson. The Cougars, who ranked seventh nationally in rushing offense; broke the bowl’s total offense record of 516 yards. They set it in a 1969 victory over Auburn. The Cougars finished with 656 total yards. Donnie McGraw, of the Cougars, also scored on runs of 1 and 32 yards and Dave Kelsey and 15 yards to Jim Husmann, the quarterback, picked up his own fumble and ran 7 yards for a score with 6:53 left in the game. Houston, which finished with its best record of 11 victories and one loss, opened the scoring early in the first quarter on Johnson’s long run.
Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Florida: Texas Tech 28, Tennessee 19. Texas Tech’s quarterback, Joe Barnes, passed for two touchdowns, one a 79-yard bomb to Lawrence Williams, and scored another to lead the Red Raiders to a 28—19 Gator Bowl victory tonight over the Tennessee Volunteers. Barnes, a senior who led the Raiders to a 10‐1 won-lost record, ran and passed for 231 yards. His touchdown run, a 6‐yard keeper, ended a 57‐yard drive with 4 minutes 56 seconds left in the first period. His touchdown pass to Williams, who was wide open at the Tennessee 35, came with 5:16 elapsed in the second period and, gave the Raiders a 14—0 lead. Barnes’s other touchdown pass, a 7‐yard strike to Andre Tillman, a tight end, came with 2:26 left in the third period after Tennessee had cut the margin to 14—10. Tennessee, behind by 21—19 early in the final period, had a chance to go ahead with 3:36 remaining. But Ricky Townsend, who had kicked two field goals earlier, missed a 32‐yard attempt. The Raiders then wrapped up the game when James Mosley, a fullback, ran 70 yards, a Gator Bowl record, to the Tennessee 10 and a freshman, Larry Isaac, scored from 3 yards out two plays later.
Born:
Tomás Pérez, Venezuelan MLB second baseman, shortstop, and third baseman (Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Houston Astros), in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
Theo Epstein, American MLB executive, in New York, New York.
Marama Davidson, New Zealander politician, Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, in Auckland, New Zealand.
Died:
Wang Zhiming, 66, Chinese missionary and Christian martyr, was publicly executed in Wuding in the Yunnan province, after having been imprisoned since 1969 for his outspoken criticism of the anti-religious campaigns of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. He would be honored in 1998 at London’s Westminster Abbey as one of the “ten modern martyrs of the 20th century”, whose images are carved into the west door of the Abbey.
Cécile Cerf, 57, French Resistance fighter and humanitarian worker.
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