Three armed members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) took over the French Embassy in the Hague and threatened to kill the Ambassador, Jacques Senard, and 10 other hostages unless a comrade, also a member of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist organization, was released from prison in France. Reports from Paris said that the prisoner was taken from his cell late tonight and rushed to a nearby military airport and taken by plane to the Hague. The JRA terrorists released their hostages after five days, in return for the release of jailed JRA member Yutaka Furuya and safe passage out of the Netherlands.
A partial exchange of prisoners between Greek and Turkish Cypriots will begin Monday, a United Nations spokesman said today. The date was set at a meeting, here this morning between President Glafkos Clerides, leader of the Greek Cypriot community, and Vice President Rauf Denktaş, the Turkish Cypriot leader. No numbers were disclosed by the United Nations spokesman, but several hundred people were believed to be involved. The exchange — agreed in principle on Wednesday by the two leaders at a special meeting held under United Nations auspices — will begin with sick and wounded detainees. The United Nations spokesman said the release of civilian hostages, under 18 years of age, students, teachers, religious and medical personnel and prisoners of war would follow. But he was not able to say when this would begin.
The two leaders met for nearly two hours to discuss the prisoner exchange. They then had 45 minutes of private discussions, accompanied only by A senior United Nations representative, on’the refugee problem and political issues. No details were available on plans for Monday’s prisoner exchange, but the United Nations spokesman said he expected it to take place close to Nicosia. He added that today’s discussions took place in a constructive atmosphere, but declined to disclose whether the twn men had discussed a Red Cross plan for the release of all of the more than 5,500 prisoners and civilians held by the two sides. Mr. Denktaş said after the meeting that as soon as the sick and wounded prisoners had been transferred, the next group would be released. “We do not want to say the ethers will start on the 17th or the 18th because it will be automatic. As soon as one class will finish, the others will follow.”
The U.S. Agency for International Development announced today that it had pledged $3‐million more for relief assistance to refugees in Cyprus. This almost doubles previous United States aid to the Cypriot refugees, which totaled $3.6‐million. The additional $3‐million was pledged in response to a request from the United Nations September 6 for a further contribution to a worldwide appeal for relief aid to Greek and Turkish Cypriots made homeless by the fighting on the island this summer.
A bomb exploded at the Cafetería Rolando, a restaurant adjacent to the national police headquarters in Madrid, killing 13 people and injuring 71 others. The bomb, thirty kilos of dynamite filled with nuts for shrapnel, went off as many enjoyed their lunch, and was large enough to cause serious structural damage to the five-storey building. The ceiling of the café collapsed, resulting in several of the hostel guests upstairs falling into the café. The blast was big enough to shatter the windows of the Real Casa de Correos across the tiny street and several cars were obliterated. Another restaurant, a large place with 300 seated guests next door, was also seriously damaged. The bomb was probably planted by the Basque terrorist separatist group ETA (Basque: “Euskadi Ta Askatasuna”).
Most of the major petroleum-exporting countries agreed to raise their taxes almost 5 percent on oil produced and sold by foreign countries. Saudi Arabia, however, the world’s largest exporter, refused to apply the tax increase adopted by all the other members of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies at their meeting in Vienna, until she completes negotiations with her foreign partners in the Arabian American Oil Company, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum said. Saudi Arabia is trying to increase its ownership share in the company from 60 percent to 100 percent. A key issue in the negotiations is the price that her American partners will have to pay for Saudi oil in the future if the government acquires full ownership of the company. OPEC instructs its Secretary General to “carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls.”
Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway are seeking replacements for their aging fighter planes and the United States and France are competing to provide them in a potentially huge global contract. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger spent the day trying to prevail on the Defense Ministers of the four countries to buy American planes. The Pentagon greeted the ministers with full military honors when they arrived in Washington for talks.
Stuart Blanch, the Bishop of Liverpool, was appointed Archbishop of York, the second highest position in the Church of England.
Sofim (Società franco-italiana di motori) was created in Italy as a joint venture of the Fiat, Renault and Alfa Romeo companies to manufacture diesel engines.
USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel concluded four days of talks with President Ford today and asserted that Israel and the United States were agreed on how to proceed in Middle East diplomacy and on the need to keep Israel militarily strong. In a news conference at Blair House, the official American guest residence, Mr. Rabin declined to go into details either on the next stage of negotiations or on the arms understanding worked out between Israel and the United States. But he suggested in answer to questions that both the United States and Israel were concentrating on new talks between Israel and Egypt as the most fruitful follow‐up to the troop separation accords that Israel has reached with Egypt and Syria. American officials said that a formula was also discussed by which Jordan could be assured that negotiations would take place regarding the Jordanian‐Israeli front.
Ethiopia’s provisional military government today withdrew tanks from the streets and relaxed some of the restrictions imposed yesterday as Emperor Haile Selassie was removed. There was no official word on the whereabouts of the 82‐year‐old former leader, who was taken away in a Volkswagen after his 58‐year rule was declared at an end. Some reports said he was at an army headquarters here, others said that he was being detained at a country palace. Lieutenant General Aman Michael Andom, the chief of staff who yesterday was named head of the new government and of the military group that deposed the Emperor, received a number of ambassadors today. But there was uncertainty over his status. This developed as the Addis Ababa radio said in an English-language broadcast that there had been a mistake and that the general should be called the spokesman and not the head of the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee.
A similar announcement was then begun in Amharic but was suddenly cut off. Asked for an explanation, a member of the Armed Forces Committee declined comment and said the quesion should be addressed to the Ethiopian News Agency, which distributes the committee’s pronouncements. The agency said that the confusion had been sorted out and that General Amen was indeed the chairman of the Armed Forces Committee as well as head of the Cabinet, Minister of Defense and Chief of Staff of the armed forces.
Spokesmen for President Ford declined for the sixth consecutive day to say specifically how reports of former President Nixon’s poor health figured in the President’s decision to pardon Mr. Nixon only a few days after he indicated he would await legal moves before making a decision. A member of Congress, who visited President Ford this week quoted him as saying that he pardoned Mr. Nixon because Mr. Nixon “would go off the deep end.”
Former President Richard M. Nixon’s physician, Air Force Major Gen. Walter Tkach, said late yesterday that Mr. Nixon had suffered a new attack of painful phlebitis in his left leg and that a new blood clot had formed. Mr. Nixon rejected the advice of his doctors and family that he enter hospital.
Administration sources said today that President Ford’s conditional amnesty plan would require repatriated war resisters to spend between six and 24 months in alternative service. Mr. Ford will issue his amnesty program next week, these sources said.
President Ford met today with nearly 30 black Republicans and told them that they “have a friend in the White House.” As a follow-up to an earlier meeting with members ot the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Ford conferred with the Republican group in an effort to set up machinery for channeling policy and political recomnendations from blacks into the White House.
Escorted by police motorcycles, buses carried 25 black students to South Boston High School today as most of the city went peacefully through its second day of court‐ordered integration. But as the high school let out this afternoon, a crowd of 300 white youths stoned three near a housing project in South Boston. One black pupil was cut by glass from a broken window. Late this afternoon, the city hall information center reported four incidents of stoning in other neighborhoods. Minor injuries were reported. In one of the incidents, a bus carrying white students was pelted by a group of black youths after leaving the newly integrated Martin Luther King Jr, School. Yesterday, Mayor Kevin H. White ordered the streets cleared in South Boston and the buses escorted by police after buses were stoned and the students were greeted by a cursing, jeering crowd.
There were 16 arrests today, nine of them in connection with the stoning incident in South Boston. Two white youths were arrested in the Roslindale section for throwing rocks at school bus. During the day in South Boston, four white youths were arrested as the police pushed them away from the high school and another was arrested on disorderly conduct charges near the Gavin Elementary School a few blocks away. As school began this morning, policemen saturated the hilltop streets around the old yellow “Southie High.” The horses of the mounted police pranced in the middle of the street, as a few people sat on their stoops watching the activity.
Business and trade association leaders attending a conference on food price inflation in Chicago gave strong support to the Ford administration’s advocacy of budget austerity and monetary restraint, Dissent from this and many other majority views, however, came from a vocal minority that included consumer representatives, a few farm and labor leaders and some economists.
The Federal Reserve Board announced that industrial production — the key indicator of economic activity that measures the output of factories and mines — had declined 0.4 percent in August. This was the index’s first significant decline since the energy shortage of last winter and spring. The August decline put the index almost 2 percent below the peak it reached in October, 1973, before the Arab oil embargo.
A juror in the Wounded Knee trial became seriously ill today, forcing a suspension in the jury’s deliberations and raising the possibility of a mistrial in the eight-month case.
The American Motors Corporation said today that more than 20,000 Jeep vehicles were being recalled because of a suspension system problem that had resulted in three minor accidents.
Chicago Today, an afternoon tabloid newspaper owned and operated by the Chicago Tribune, published its final issue. The paper had started on July 4, 1900, as the Chicago American, was bought by the Tribune in 1956 and converted to Today in 1969.
New York Mayor Beame’s announcement Thursday that his carefully drawn $11.1-billion expense budget, not yet three months old, was being thrown off balance badly by inflation and a turndown in the economy raises the question of how good he and his advisers are as econnmic forecasters.
Several notable series premiered on American prime-time television. The CBS network debuted the “Planet of the Apes” TV series, based on the 1968 film of the same name and its sequels. ABC debuted the adventure series “Kodiak,” the sitcom “The Texas Wheelers” and the supernatural drama “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” featuring a character who had appeared in two earlier TV movies. NBC debuted the sitcom “Chico and the Man,” the detective drama “The Rockford Files” and the police procedural “Police Woman,” a spin-off of an episode of the anthology Police Story.
With 16 games remaining, the enigmatic Dick Allen of the Chicago White Sox announces he is quitting the team. His 32 home runs, the last of which was hit August 16th, will still be enough to lead the American League.
The Boston Red Sox had a seven‐game lead in the American League’s Eastern Division in late August. Then they went into a nosedive. But last night they beat Milwaukee, 8–5, in 10 innings to move wtihin 1½ games of the first‐place Yankees — who lost to Detroit, 6–3.
The cold, the hex and the gopher ball slowed the Yankee pennant express tonight as the New Yorkers lost, 6–3, to the Detroit Tigers. The last‐place Tigers have won 11 of the 16 games played between the teams this season. The defeat proved costly for the Yankees because the Red Sox beat the Brewers, 8–5, in 10 innings and cut New York’s first‐place lead to 1½ games. The Tigers pounded Doc Medich (18–13), driving him out in the sixth. Besides Ben Oglivie’s fourth home run of the year, Jim Nettles, the younger brother of the Yankees’ Graig, struck his seventh of the year in the second with the bases empty. Woodie Fryman (6–8) got the win.
The defending world champion Oakland A’s succumbed to the Texas Rangers, 3–1. Fergie Jenkins, a National League castoff, won his 23rd game while beating the world champions for the fifth time in five attempts this season. Of course, the A’s still hold a commanding five-game lead over the upstart Texans, but the way things are going as pennant fever mounts, that doesn’t mean that the A’s have a lock on that playoff money. Lenny Randle’s two‐run double in the third inning provided Jenkins with the runs he needed to beat Jim (Catfish) Hunter. Both pitchers now have 23–11 records. Jenkins left two runners stranded in three of the first four innings and yielded Oakland’s run in the third on singles by Jim North and Bert Campaneris and a sacrifice fly by Reggie Jackson. But from that point Jenkins was in full command. He gave up seven hits, fanned 10 and walked one. Hunter gave up five hits.
The Baltimore Orioles beat the Cleveland Indians, 3–2, behind the six‐hit pitching of Mike Cuellar (19–10) in the first game of a doubleheader. The second game was suspended by the American League curfew rule after eight innings with the Orioles leading, 8–6. Paul Blair’s two‐run homer (No. 16) in the second inning and Boog Powell’s ninth of the year in the sixth carried the Orioles to victory. Powell’s homer — off Dick Bosman (6‐4)—was the 300th of his career.
In other American League action, the Minnesota Twins downed the Kansas City Royals, 6–5, on Rod Carew’s leadoff homer in the tenth inning, and the Chicago White Sox swept two from the California Angels, 8–0 and 3–1. Jim Kaat (17-13) won the opener behind seventeen Sox hits. Bart Johnson and Terry Forster combined on a seven-hitter to complete the sweep.
The Philadelphia Phillies set an National League record by using 27 players during a 17–inning 7–3 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards had set the record 2 days earlier. Reggie Smith walks 5 times, 2 intentionally, and gets hit once. He is the second Cardinal this year to walk 5 times. Phillies reliever Gene Garber hands out 2 intentional walks on his way to a Major League record 24 IBB. It is the second marathon extra-innings win for the Cardinals in three days.
Having suffered from battle fatigue following their disheartening 25-inning defeat by the Cardinals early Thursday morning and having been shell‐shocked by the same Redbirds, 12–5, that night, the New York Mets showed early signs of a quick recovery last night. They pounded out 11 hits in the opener of a twilightnight double‐header with the Chicago Cubs in posting a 6–0 victory behind the, four‐hit pitching of Tom Seaver, who struck out 11. But then the Mets suffered an equally quick relapse when they bowed in the second game, 4–3, in another extra inning affair that ended in the 11th. A leadoff homer by Ron Dunn, a 24‐year‐old rookie infielder just up from the Cubs’ Wichita farm team, decided the contest.
The Pittsburgh Pirates, who surged into first place in the National League’s Eastern Division during August, lost to Montreal, 3–2, in the ninth inning. Barry Foote, Montreal’s rookie catcher, ruined the Pirates, driving home the winning run with a triple. Steve Rogers won his 13th game, picking up his first victory since August 10. The game-winning hit was the fifth of the season for Foote.
Buzz Capra tosses a shutout and the Atlanta Braves wallop Randy Jones and the San Diego Padres, 9–0. Mike Lum has a grand slam and drives in 5 runs.
In Los Angeles, the Cincinnati Reds win, 6–3 over the Dodgers as Jack Billingham wins his 19th with relief help from Clay Carroll. The loss cut the Dodgers’ lead to 2½ games. It was Cincinnati’s fifth victory over the Dodgers in 16 games, and the result heightened the pressure considerably on the Dodgers, who are not strangers to losing championships in the season’s waning days.
The Houston Astros scored two in the top of the ninth and edged the San Francisco Giants, 5–4. Cesar Cedno’s single drives in the tying and winning runs. Mike Cosgrove threw three innings of relief for the win; Ron Bryant (3–15) took the loss.
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Born:
Craig Rivet, Canadian NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens, San Jose Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, Columbus Blue Jackets), in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Travis Knight, NBA center (NBA Champions, 2000; Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks), in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Jason Peter, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers), in Locust, New Jersey.
Jerome Daniels, NFL guard and tackle (Arizona Cardinals), in Hartford, Connecticut.
Keith Murray, American rapper (Def Squad), in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York.
Died:
Mary Broadfoot Walker, 86, Scottish physician known for her discovery of treatment of myasthenia graviswith physostigmine.
Sir John Montague Brocklebank, 5th Baronet, 59, English cricketer and businessman, former chairman of Cunard Steamship Company.
Jack Pfefer, 79, Polish-born American promoter of professional wrestling, later inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum.
Minoru Takano, 73, Japanese trade union leader and former Secretary-General of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan.
Walter Greenwood, 70, English novelist known for the 1933 book Love on the Dole, about working-class poverty in Northern England.
Albert Loening, 88, American aviation pioneer, developer of the first successful amphibian airplane.
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