The United Nations admitted Bangladesh, Guinea-Bissau, and Grenada as its newest members. The General Assembly admitted the Republic of Guinea‐Bissau, formerly Portuguese Guinea, as a new member of the United Nations. Long and almost general applause greeted the delegates of Guinea-Bissau when they were shown to their seats by a protocol officer. Bangladesh, the former eastern region of Pakistan, and Grenada, an island in the West Indies, were also admitted, bringing the United Nations membership to 138.
Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria was unanimously elected President of the 29th General Assembly today and the Assembly began a 13-week session. He accepted the post in an unusually militant speech advocating self‐determination for Palestinians. Without mentioning Israel by name, Mr. Bouteflika said that optimism concerning the Middle East was not warranted as long as “the conciuered territories have not been returned.” The General Assembly is due to be addressed by President Ford at noon tomorrow. Officials in Washington said the President was expected to announce that the United States was prepared to increase its food aid to poorer countries but that greater emphasis would probably be placed on offers of technological aid.
The three Japanese terrorists who had taken over the French Embassy in The Hague released their 9 remaining hostages and left Amsterdam by jetliner for Damascus, Syria, taking with them Japanese Red Army member Yutaka Furuya, whose release from a Parisian prison they had demanded. Earlier in the day, Queen Juliana was driven in a blue compact car to the parliament building (Ridderzaal) only 300 yards (270 m) from the French Embassy to give the Prinsjesdag, the Dutch speech from the throne, rather than riding in the Golden Coach as was traditional.
On the eve of resumption of the second round of strategic arms limitation talks in Geneva, chief U.S. negotiator U. Alexis Johnson said he is “reasonably optimistic” a comprehensive 10-year agreement with Moscow can be achieved in 1975. Disarmament experts, however, said they doubted whether a meaningful agreement could be reached next year. They said the two sides are far apart and that Moscow has shown no readiness for strict parity with the United States but insists on superiority.
Greek Cypriot President Glafkos Clerides said that there can be no peaceful solution to the Cyprus crisis while Turkey occupies more than a third of the island and nearly half the Greek Cypriot population is homeless. In Ankara, Turkish Premier Bulent Ecevit presided over what probably was the last meeting of his coalition cabinet and told ministers he definitely intended to resign because of differences with his ultraconservative vice premier. He is seeking new elections which he hopes will give him a sweeping mandate.
More than 20 Senators are preparing to seek approval of a resolution urging President Ford to suspend military aid to Turkey because of allegedly illegal use of American-supplied arms in Cyprus. According to State Department officials, Secretary Kissinger is advising the President to continue the shipments on policy grounds.
Kuwait will sign a contract this week for $450 million worth of U.S. arms and military equipment — including Hawk surface-to-air missiles — and will soon open final negotiations for fighter-bombers, Arab military sources in Beirut said. Kuwaiti officials stress that the arms will be for defensive purposes. Saudi Arabia has already embarked on large scale purchases of military planes and Arab oil producers in general have committed themselves to buy more than $2.7 billion worth of airplanes, missiles, tanks and other equipment from the United States and Western Europe.
Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria won unanimous election as president of the 29th General Assembly of the United Nations and, in a militant acceptance speech at the opening session, called for self-determination of the Palestinian people. Without mentioning Israel by name, he said optimism about the Middle East was not warranted as long as “the conquered territories have not been returned.”
Pakistan today renewed her criticism of the Indian nuclear test explosion and declared that she was formally proposing to the United Nations General Assembly that the South Asian subcontinent be declared a nuclear-free zone. The chairman of the Pakistani Atomic Energy. Commission, Munir Ahmed Khan, announced the proposal in an address to a general conference in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu has replaced six of his 44 province chiefs, including the commander of Hue, where Roman Catholic-led demonstrations against government corruption have spurred mounting opposition to his regime, the government radio announced. The statement coincided with reports that 20 congressmen planned to bring Thiệu before a special court on corruption charges.
South Korea has postponed until today the announcement of its full accord with Japan on a dispute stemming from the August 15 attempt by a Korean resident of Japan to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung Hee. No official reason was given for the South Korean action but it was believed the two countries were still discussing procedural matters. South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Dong Jo had announced earlier in Seoul that the dispute had been settled and that the exchange of notes was being discussed.
Fishermen in northern Japan prepared thousands of sandbags to blockade their harbor against Japan’s first nuclear-powered ship, which is returning for repairs. The fishermen said they would dump the sandbags at the mouth of Mutsu harbor — for which the ship was named — and spoil their port rather than have the ship return. The Mutsu has a defective reactor and is scheduled to return to its home port Thursday.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee authorized its staff to study evidence on allegedly misleading official testimony about the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in Chile. The action came amid congressional criticism of President Ford’s defense of such clandestine operations that exceed intelligence gathering.
Angered striking workers disrupted transportation across Argentina after the murder of union leader Atilio Lopez, one of five persons killed by terrorists within 24 hours. So many bombs were exploded in Buenos Aires and provincial towns that police stopped giving information about the bombings. The latest murder victim was Alejandro Bartoch, a police doctor believed linked to right-wing Perónists.
The government ordered the release of nearly 100 draft evaders from prison on 30-day furloughs under President Ford’s conditional amnesty program, pending review of their cases by the new Presidential Clemency Board. But convicted military deserters remained in confinement. Officials said that few draft evaders and deserters who have not been convicted have thus far responded to the offer of conditional amnesty. Government officials said that since the President announced yesterday the establishment of the program fewer than 100 have telephoned the authorities con cerned for information on it and only one draft evader a 22‐year old man in San Francisco, was reported to have surrendered to a United States Attorney.
The announcement of General Alexander Haig’s appointment as NATO commander in Europe virtually completes the removal of top Nixon aides from the White House. President Ford did not engage in wholesale dismissals of his predecessor’s men but he is expected to turn his attention now to a house cleaning in the cabinet.
Attorneys for Richard M. Nixon have contended in federal court in Los Angeles that the former President is too ill to provide testimony in a North Carolina civil suit growing out of his appearance at a rally in Charlotte in 1971. A motion seeking to quash the subpoena cited Mr. Nixon’s health and also contended that he enjoyed Presidential privilege in the case because it involved events that took place while he was in office. The former President, who has reportedly suffered, a recurrence of a phlebitis condition in his leg, has been scheduled to provide a deposition next Tuesday in a law office near here relating to the Charlotte rally he attended three years ago in honor of the Rev. Billy Graham.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the former President’s younger daughter, said her father may soon enter a hospital for treatment of the flare-up of his chronic phlebitis. Mrs. Eisenhower, appearing calm and composed and occasionally smiling, indicated that her father would be entering the hospital reluctantly. She told a news conference in New York: “I’m sure we can control it and that he will be all right,” but added that her father, like “anybody else,” didn’t like to be confined in a hospital. The 26‐year‐old Mrs. Eisenhower strongly denied reports that she had urged General Alexander M. Haig Jr. to speak to President Ford about pardoning her father. “The week I was supposed to be talking to General Haig, I was in Philadelphia and Indiana and New York,” she said. “Of course it’s not true. It’s crazy — people are just looking for reasons.”
President Ford’s conference on inflation in health care costs, starting Thursday, will weigh basic changes in the way medicine is practiced, some of which have been urged by reformers for years. The proposals, now deemed feasible because of soaring health care costs, are certain to draw strong opposition from doctors, hospitals and drug companies.
The government has proposed regulations to require public housing authorities and private owners of federally subsidized housing to notify tenants of specific reasons for rent increases. The tenants can then oppose the increases if they are unjustifiable. The proposed regulation drafted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development would affect 1.1 million units operated by 2,700 local authorities and about 600,000 units operated by private owners.
President Ford has decided against providing Federal subsidies to help Pan American World Airways meet a “critical cash squeeze beginning next month, government sources said. The decision, made at a meeting with his advisers in Washington yesterday, is expected to be announced by the White House tomorrow morning and elaborated on by the Secretary of Transportation, Claude S. Brinegar, in a news conference called for 11 o’clock. Reliable sources said a major factor in Mr. Ford’s decision not to support beleaguered Pan Am’s request for a $10.2‐million‐a‐month emergency subsidy was that he saw little hope that such payments would be approved by Congress. Contending that the subsidy was necessary to offset substantial increases in the price of jet fuel since last year, Pan Am requested the emergency subsidy in a petition to the Civil Aeronautics Board.
David Boren, a 33-year-old college professor of government who promised a clean sweep of the Old Guard from state politics, won a surprisingly easy victory in the Oklahoma Democratic primary runoff for governor. Former Congressman Ed Edmondson, who lost a race for the U.S. Senate two years ago, captured the Democratic nomination for the Senate again, rolling over Charles Nesbitt, chairman of the State Corporation Commission. With all 3,043 of the state’s precincts reporting, the unofficial count showed Boren with 285,751 votes, or 54%, to 248,533, or 46%; for U.S. Rep. Clem McSpadden. In the Senate race, with all the precincts reported, the unofficial vote was 305,421 for Edmondson and 216,749 for Nesbitt. In Washington state, Senator Warren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, easily won renomination for a sixth term in the Democratic primary.
A Manhattan grand jury returned an indictment against a young man accused of stealing the bicycle of John F. Kennedy Jr., 13, in Central Park last May 14. Robert Lopez, 20, was charged with first-degree robbery and third-degree grand larceny. Criminal court charges against Lopez were thrown out on September 9 because the late President’s son failed to appear for the fourth time, but Manhattan District Attorney Richard H. Kuh pledged personally in court to take the case before the grand jury.
Attorney General William B. Saxbe has ordered a high-level review of controversial proceedings during the Wounded Knee trial, a Justice Department spokesman said. The review is part of a broader examination of prosecution, defense and judicial conduct during other recent trials of political activists, said Robert Havel, public information director. In the Wounded Knee case, Havel said, officials plan an objective analysis of the criticisms leveled by U.S. District Judge Fred J. Nichol. The judge on Monday dismissed the charges against American Indian Movement leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks, criticized FBI conduct and accused the chief prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney R. D. Hurd, of negligence and poor judgment.
Prison officials have relaxed security for mass murderer Charles Manson and have allowed him to mix with other inmates for the first time since he was sent to San Quentin’s Death Row for the August 9, 1969, slaying of actress Sharon Tate and six others. Philip Guthrie, spokesman for the Department of Corrections, said the onetime hippie cult leader also is undergoing psychiatric management at the state Medical Facility in Vacaville. Guthrie said Manson was moved from an isolation unit to a less restricted cellblock where he can talk to a few other inmates. Manson’s death sentence was commuted to life after capital punishment was declared unconstitutional in a 1972 ruling by the California Supreme Court. He was transferred to an isolation cell at Folsom until about seven months ago when he was moved to Vacaville.
Community leaders in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in New York strove yesterday to prevent further violence in the predominantly black neighborhood where teenagers clashed with the police Monday night, a day after a white police officer shot and killed a 14‐year‐old black youth. As sound trucks circulated through the troubled neighborhood urging calm, workers from the Brownsville Community Action Center passed out leaflets urging residents to contribute to the funeral expenses for the family of Claude Reese Jr., the 14‐year‐old who was fatally shot in the courtyard of his apartment building.
An orderly but angry crowd of more than 500 shouting parents, many of them coal miners who are on strike, reopened the book‐banning crisis here today by staging a demonstration to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of what they called “dirty” and “Godless” public school textbooks. The use of the books in some junior and senior high school English classes in Charleston, West Virginia that contain the works of scores of contemporary writers, including many black authors, has stirred a two-week protest by white Fundamentalists.
The controversial made-for-TV film “Born Innocent” was broadcast on NBC as the U.S. network’s NBC World Premiere Movie starting at 8:00 pm Eastern Time (7:00 Central), with content never seen before on U.S. television, including a rape scene inside a juvenile detention center. Starring Linda Blair, “Born Innocent” was the highest-rated television movie to air in the United States in 1974, but would lead to the creation of a family viewing policy by the National Association of Broadcasters.
The American yacht Courageous, skippered by Ted Hood, won the 1974 America’s Cup at Newport, Rhode Island, beating Southern Cross (Australia).
The Baltimore Orioles shut out the New York Yankees, 4–0. The Orioles won Round One of the battle for first place in Shea Stadium last night when Jim Palmer outpitched George Medich and Sparky Lyle in a 4–0 tingler that drew the Orioles within 1½ games of the New York Yankees and their September dream. Paul Blair made a spectacular catch against the fence in the fifth inning, then cracked a three-run homer in the eighth.
Al Kaline ignited a two-run, sixth-inning rally with his 2,993rd career hit tonight and the Detroit Tigers went on to win, 5–3, over the Red Sox. It was Boston’s 17th loss in 22 games. With the Tigers trailing by 3–2, the 39-year-old Kaline led off the sixth with a ground single to left and moved to second on a hit by Bill Freehan, Reggie Sanders sacrificed and both Kaline and Freehan scored on Leon Roberts’ sharp ground single to left. The Red Sox jumped to a 2–0 lead off Joe Coieman in the first inning on a single by Tommy Harper and Bernie Carbo’s 12th homer. However, the Tigers came back in the second on Bill Freehan’s 16th homer, a double to deep right-center by Sanders and a pop single by Aurelio Rodriguez.
Steve Busby notched his 20th victory of the season with a three-hitter tonight and George Brett knocked in the winning run with a seventh-inning single, giving the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 victory over the Oakland A’s. It was Busby’s fifth attempt to win No. 20. The defeat cut the A’s lead over the Texas Rangers, whose game with California was rained out, to 4½ games in the American League West. Busby gave up singles to Bill North and Joe Rudi, in the third inning, and to North again in the eighth. After Rudi’s single, Busby retired the next 11 A’s before Gene Tenace walked leading off the seventh.
The Minnesota Twins blanked the Chicago White Sox, 8–0. Minnesota’s Vic Albury scattered six hits to post his first shutout of the season.
The Milwaukee Brewers edged the Cleveland Indians, 3–2. Milwaukee’s John Colborn and Tom Murphy combined on a four-hitter.
St. Louis beats the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2–1, in 13 innings, as Ted Simmons’s sacrifice fly in the 13th inning scored Lou Brock with the winning run. It is the 6th straight win for the Cardinals and the 6th straight loss for the Pirates, turning the Bucs’ 3½-game lead in the National League East to a 2½-game margin for the Cards.
Lee May belted his 24th home run of the season, a two-run shot in the fifth inning, to back the five-hit pitching of Tom Griffin as the Houston Astros blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight, 7–0. May also drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. The victory was the first for the Astros in eight games in Dodger Stadium this season. Despite the loss, the Dodgers retained their 2½-game lead over the Reds in the National League West.
Dave Winfield of the San Diego Padres drove in three runs and Bill Greif pitched a six-hitter as the Padres beat Cincinnati tonight, 6–1, further imperiling the Reds’ Western Division title hopes. The Padres scored five runs in the first three innings against the top Cincinnati pitcher, Jack Billingham (19–10), who gave up eight hits. Greif lost a shutout in the seventh inning when Pete Rose’s triple drove in Hal King, aboard on a pinch double.
The Chicago Cubs downed the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–2. Don Kessinger doubled home two runs and scored a pair of runs for Chicago.
The Atlanta Braves edged the San Francisco Giants, 4–3. Buzz Capra hurled a seven-hitter to down the Giants.
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Born:
Rasheed Wallace, NBA power forward and center (NBA Championship, 2004; NBA All-Star 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008; Washington Bullets, Portland Trailblazers, Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Masamori Tokuyama (ring name for Chang-soo Hong), Japanese-born North Korean boxer who held the WBC super-flyweight title twice between 2000 and 2006, who later obtained South Korean citizenship; in Tokyo, Japan.
Mette Solli, Norwegian women’s kickboxer, 2001 and 2007 world champion; in Molde, Norway.
Clifton Crosby, NFL defensive back (St. Louis Rams, Indianapolis Colts), in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Tim Seder, NFL kicker (Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Ashland, Ohio.
Pratt Lyons, NFL defensive end (Tennessee Titans), in Fort Worth, Texas.
Lyron Cobbins, NFL linebacker (Arizona Cardinals), in Kansas City, Kansas.
Mirah (Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn), American musician and songwriter; in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Claudia Morgan, 63, American radio and stage actress, star from 1941 to 1950 of The Adventures of the Thin Man as Nora Charles.
André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 90, French painter and graphic artist, died of bronchitis.
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