Representatives of 12 oil-consuming nations including the United States agreed at a meeting in Brussels on the details of a plan under which countries affected by oil-producer embargoes would receive supplies from a common pool when their oil imports declined by more than 7 percent. The plan will be managed by a new agency within the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and will be open to all members of the organization, according to Viscount Etienne Davignon, a Belgian diplomat, who presided over, the energy group’s meeting.
The governments of the 12 countries that drew up the plan will have until the end of October to decide whether to accept it. At present only Norway, where there is strong opposition to sharing her North Sea oil resources, seems likely to disassociate herself. The other members of the energy group are the United States, Japan and Canada, and all the Common Market members but France — that is, West Germany, Denmark, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, and Ireland.
The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreed to a general release of all prisoners of war. The exchange of an estimated 4,200 prisoners will begin Monday and will continue each day until completed, a United Nations spokesman in Nicosia said. A Turkish Cypriot spokesman said that 300 sick or wounded Greek Cypriots held on the Turkish mainland had arrived early today by ship at Kyrenia in northern Cyprus. The spokesman said that these prisoners would be exchanged tomorrow for Turkish Cypriot prisoners at the United Nations post in the Ledra Palace Hotel here, on the line that separates the two ethnic communities in Nicosia. There was no immediate word on how many prisoners would be released in tomorrow’s exchange of sick and wounded.
Turkish Cypriot leaders have consistently said that their fears about the thousands of their people held by Greek Cypriots have prevented proper negotiations. They have said that a full prisoner exchange would greatly improve the climate for more detailed talks on a settlement of the Cyprus problem, including the resettlement of the estimated 226,000. The decision to free all prisoners of war came after a meeting today between the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, and the Greek Cypriot President of Cyprus, Glafkos Clerides. The two have been meeting regularly each week in Nicosia on humanitarian problems, mainly concerning the refugees. Today they concentrated solely on the prisoner issue.
On Monday more than 250 sick and wounded Greek and Turkish Cypriot prisoners were exchanged in Nicosia. That was the first formal transfer of civilian and military captives, between the two sides since the Turkish Army invaded Cyprus on July 20. Some of the Greek Cypriot prisoners have been held in prison in the Turkish Cypriot quarter of Nicosia, while others have been kept in military camps near Bogaz, the Turkish military headquarters north the capital. Others were sent the Turkish mainland. Turkish Cypriot prisoners have been held in camps in the Greek Cypriot towns of Limassol and Larnaca.
On the refugee problem, Turkey has suggested that 8,000 Turkish Cypriot refugees now at the British base at Episkopi, in southern Cyprus, be allowed to move to the northern third of the island held by the Turkish Army. But the Greek Cypriots say that if the British allow this they will be conniving at dividing Cyprus into two parts. Cyprus Government sources said yesterday that President Clerides had rejected a Turkish Cypriot offer to exchange the city of Famagusta, now in Turkish hands, for the transfer north of the 8,000 Turkish Cypriot refugees. The proposal, made to Mr. Clerides through United Nations officials, would have allowed the Greek Cypriot refugees to return to Famagusta, but the Turks said they would retain the port facilities there.
President Ford and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union met for the first time today and later issued a statement that they had agreed “on the importance of the continuing efforts for lasting and equitable peace in the Middle East.” With Secretary of State Kissinger planning a new Middle East trip early next month to seek a resumption of Arab‐Israeli negotiations, the joint statement was welcomed by American officials as a sign that the Russians were at least not trying to block the American mediation efforts. It was Mr. Ford’s day for “détente.” In addition to his two‐and‐half‐hour meeting with Mr. Gromyko, he met earlier for 45 minutes with Senator Henry M. Jackson to try and work out the final details of compromise package that would allow the Russians to get trade concessions in return for promised liberalization of Soviet emigration policies.
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ordered the dissolution of Parliament slightly more than six months after it opened on March 12, making the 46th Parliament of Elizabeth II the shortest elected UK parliament in history. Price statistics issued today could aid the prospects of the Labor party, which has been running the country since February with a minority Government. The figures showed that the rate of inflation had eased slightly — the smallest rise in three years — so, wage. increases pegged to prices will not be necessary this month. At the same time the Bank of England announced a relaxation of its minimum lending rate to 11.5 percent, the lowest since May. These improvements, plus an indication that unemployment, at 613,000, is not so bad as expected, gives Prime Minister Harold Wilson some help in the October10 election, in which inflation is the key issue.
Former Chancellor Willy Brandt said today that the Government’s security agencies left him in the dark for nine months after he was informed that an aide, Günter Guillaume, was suspected of being a spy for East Germany. Mr. Brandt told a Parliamentary investigating committee today that when his Minister of the. Interior, Hans‐Dietrich Genscher, first informed him of the suspicions on May 29, 1973, “I thought it rather unlikely” that Mr. Guillaume, his assistant for Social Democratic party affairs, really was a spy. Mr. Guillaume was arrested last April 24 and Mr. Brandt, assuming responsibility for “negligence” in the affair, resigned 12 days later.
The war crimes trial of Bruno Streckenbach, director of Nazi Germany’s Einsatzgruppen within Poland, on charges of one million counts of murder, was postponed indefinitely because of his cardiac problems. Streckenbach would survive for three more years, never facing a verdict, until his death on October 28, 1977.
Ethiopia’s provisional military government pledged today that it would not nationalize foreign property or investments, but it said the aristocracy would have to give its money back to the people. “When we have the aristocracy totally under our control, we shall restore all civil rights,” Lieutenant General Aman Michael Andom said in his first meeting with foreign newsmen since Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed last week. The aristocracy until now has dominated Ethiopia’s economy. The general, who heads the new government, said that priority would be given to land reform, and he pledged that the new constitution now being worked out would keep the country from reverting to authoritarian rule. He said that it was too early to make a decision on the fate of the former Emperor, who is still being held by the military. And “for reasons of security,” he said, it will not be possible for the people to see Haile Selassie. General Aman said the fate of the former Emperor would be up to the people.
Several hundred demonstrators spilled into Saigon streets this afternoon in the first large‐scale anti‐government eruption since the signing of the Paris peace agreements 19 months ago. The demonstration was triggered by government orders to confiscate today’s issues of three Saigon dailies that had published the full text of a Roman Catholic priest’s six‐count “indictment” of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu for alleged corruption. Minutes after a gray‐uniformed police officer delivered the first confiscation order, at 3:55 PM, to Võ Long Triều, publisher of Đại Dân Tộc, printers, priests, some Buddhist monks and others tossed bundles of newspapers into the street.
Newsboys, onlookers and journalists scooped up the papers as they fluttered onto Võ Tánh Street. Newsboys on bicycles dashed past a loose gantlet of plainclothes men, who scuffled with some of the youths and tried to wrench the banned papers from them. A similar scene was enacted outside the nearby printing shop of Điện Tin, a leftish opposition daily. Then a group of oppositibn deputies, priests, Buddhist monks and one white-gowned priest of the Cao Đài sect marched boisterously for half a mile to the offices of the third banned newspaper, Sóng Thần. There, on the blocked‐off main thoroughfare of Hồng Thập Tự, opposition deputies shouted anti-Thiệu slogans without the benefit of bullhorns as they stood under banners demanding “Down with newspaper confiscation!”
The National Highway, Australia’s network of federally-funded roads, came into existence with the approval of the National Roads Act 1974.
United States consumers will get the brunt of an increase in the price of natural gas ordered by Canada’s Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources. The United States buys about 40 percent of Canada’s natural gas production, and it was estimated that the increase would cost American utility companies an additional $330 million a year.
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States voted unanimously today to review the economic and political sanctions imposed 10 years ago against Cuba. The United States expressly endorsed the proposal caning’, for a review of the embargo by, foreign ministers or the 23-member organization at a meeting on November 8 in Quito, Ecuador. But, in endorsing the review proposal, William S. Mailliard, the United States representative at the O.A.S., said: “I wish to make very clear that our willingness to re‐examine the matter does not imply a judgment on the substance of the issue.” President Ford said last month that the United States would act in concert with the O.A.S. in any moves to improve relations with Cuba. Later officials in Washington indicated that a full review of United States policy on Cuba was under way. The United States broke diplomatic relations with the Havana Government in 1961 and economic ties a year later, and apparently intends to reserve the right to maintain its own boycott regardless of what the organization decides.
Hurricane Fifi, later known as Hurricane Orlene, struck the Central American nation of Honduras, where it killed more than 8,000 people. On the first day, the town of Choloma was destroyed and more than 2,800 people washed away when the flood collapsed a natural dam.
About 50,000 Argentine trade unionists rallied today to give President Isabel Martinez de Perón a sorely needed political lift in the face of terrorism and labor discontent that are shaking her government. The orderly demonstrators poured into the Plaza de Mayo to applaud new labor legislation and to acclaim her in chants as the late General Juan Domingo Perón’s legitimate political successor. The gathering was the largest rally so far for Mrs. Perón, who responded to the crowds with an appeal for an end to the political violence that is claiming more than a victim per day.
An interim government, dominated by the liberation front that for 10 years had waged a war for independence, was installed in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique in East Africa today. In a statement issued after the installation, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique called for a major transformation of economic, cultural and political life in Mozambique, which will become fully independent next June 25. The interim government, composed of six ministers appointed by the front and three appointed by the Portuguese high commissioner, will exercise local self‐government until then. In its statement, the front, known as Frelimo, said it would ban strikes and seek a “quick solution” to economic troubles and dwindling foreign exchange reserves in Mozambique, which has been struck by uncertainty, mob violence and racial fears as Portuguese colonial rule wound down after more than 400 years.
The government’s Consumer Price Index rose 1.3 percent in August, the largest monthly increase since 1947, excluding periods when price freezes had just been lifted. Food prices resumed their climb and prices of most other consumer goods advanced. The big exception was gasoline prices, which declined for the first time since last September, the month before the Arab oil embargo began. The 1.3 percent increase brought the price index to 150.2 percent of its 1967 base of 100. The rise was the largest for a single month since August, 1973, when the index rose 1.9 percent, largely because the 60‐day price freeze on most products was ended.
Not since September, 1947, has there been a month in peacetime that was also free of the immediate after‐effects of controls when the index rose as much as it did this August. The September, 1947, rise was 2 percent. The big increase in prices further depressed the spending power of the typical workers’ take‐home pay. The purchasing power of typical non-supervisory worker’s pay check was down ninetenths of 1 percent in August, as against the previous month, and down 4.1 percent as against August, 1973. The decline brought the typical worker’s purchasing power down to its lowest level since December, 1970. In dollar terms, rather than in terms of purchasing power, average weekly earnings rose four‐tenths of 1 percent in August and were 7.6 percent above those of a year ago.
Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, termed the recent decline in short-term interest rates as “encouraging” and said that “tensions” in the country’s financial markets have recently been reduced to some degree. But while indirectly confirming in this fashion that the Federal Reserve has moved to a slightly less restrictive policy on money and credit, Dr. Burns cautioned that “In view of the intensity of inflation, a policy of moderate monetary restraint remains appropriate.” His remarks were made at another of the “pre‐summit” conferences leading up to general conference on inflation called by President Ford for the end of next week. Today’s session involved leaders in banking and finance. President Ford, meanwhile, asked Congress to defer or rescind about $600‐million in spending in the current fiscal year, which ends next June 30, The request had been expected, but the surprise was that the proposed cutback was so low.
President Ford asked Congress today to defer or rescind about $600‐million in spending in the current fiscal year, which ends next June 30. It had been known that such a request would be made by the President, but the surprise was that the proposed spending cutback for this fiscal year was so low. However, Roy L. Ash director of the Office of Management and Budget said today that Mr. Ford would propose further deferrals and recisions in an effort to trim this fiscal year’s $305.4‐billion budget to $300‐billion or less as part of the Administration’s fight against inflation. In his message to Congress today, Mr. Ford asked to defer or rescind $20.3‐billion in Federal budget authority. This figure, however, includes budget authority for spending in future years as well as for programs dating back a dozen or more years.
Mr. Ford was acting for the first time under the budget and impoundment control law that went into effect July 12. The law was enacted by Congress in the aftermath of farreaching impoundment of funds by President Nixon. While all Presidents have impounded funds from time to time, Mr. Nixon angered many in Congress by attempting to terminate entire programs by refusing to spend appropriated funds. Under the new law the President is required to inform Congress whenever he proposes to defer or rescind spending. To rescind funds Congress must pass legislation within 45 days after receiving a message from the President. If Congress does not act within that time, the funds must be made available for use.
President Ford’s speech at the United Nations Wednesday, linking the world’s food and energy problems, represented a compromise of sharp differences within the Administration. The speech, which implied that the oil‐producing nations would have to “give” on oil if the United States was to “give” on food, also reflected Mr. Ford’s apparent recognition that Washington had little direct leverage on the oil producers. The Administration debate pitted the State Department, which wanted to almost double the food aid program to about $1.8‐billion, against the Office of Management and Budget, headed by Roy L. Ash, and the Council of Economic Advisers, which opposed any increase.
An official of Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, California, said that former President Richard Nixon was expected to enter the hospital Monday morning for tests and treatment of the phlebitis that has caused a painful swelling in his left leg. An entire wing, consisting of 19 single bedrooms on the hospital’s sixth floor, will be reserved for Mr. Nixon, under the protection of Secret Service agents. Dr. John C. Lungren, who has been treating Mr. Nixon for the recent flare‐up of his chronic phlebitis condition, has scheduled a news conference for Monday morning. Dr. Lungren, who specializes in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases, was the hospital’s chief of staff until 1971 when. he returned to private practice. His office is near the hospital. Officials at the hospital said that they expected Mr. Nixon to stay there for at least three days. They said they had not yet been asked by Dr. Lungren to bring in any special equipment.
The special Watergate prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, proposed that the Federal District Court in Washington send a team of physicians to San Clemente to determine how sick former President Nixon might be. He suggested this to federal Judge John Sirica in opposing a defense motion for a delay of two or three months in the Watergate cover-up conspiracy trial, which is scheduled to begin October 1. Judge Sirica took no action on the proposal, but he rejected the delay motion. The health issue had been raised in a motion to delay the trial by John D. Ehrlichman, former assistant to the President for domestic affairs. Mr. Ehrlichman argued that Mr. Nixon might be too ill to appear as a defense witness and should be given time to recover. Judge Sirica turned down the defense motion for a delay without comment, but that action did not preclude his agreeing to Mr, Jaworski’s suggestion. An aide to the judge said the question of Mr. Nixon’s health still remained to be considered, A pretrial conference is scheduled for Tuesday, at which time the issue may be discussed.
Like hundreds of other young men in the country, Steven Ford, the President’s youngest son, has technically violated the law by failing to register with his local draft board on time. The handsome, sandy‐haired 18‐year‐old did not register with the Selective Service until after his father became President. By law, he was required to report to his draft board not later than 30 days after his 18th birthday. Since he was born on May 19, 1956, he should have presented himself to the board before June 19, 1974.
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, under the leadership of tribal elder Amelia Trice, announced a declaration of war against the U.S. government. The Tribe set up informational pickets and requested 10-cent tolls on U.S. Highway 95 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Trice would lead a delegation to Washington, D.C., for talks, resulting in U.S. President Ford signing a bill transferring two tracts of federal land to the tribe.
The Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to discourage overuse of controversial drugs for diabetics have been frustrated for years by lawsuits, despite a major study that cast serious doubt on the drugs’ safety and efficacy, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs testified today. Dr. Alexander M. Schmidt, head of the F.D.A., testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing on drugs that are taken by mouth to lower diabetics’ blood sugar. The drugs have been the subject of intense controversy since the report of a major study in 1970 that showed deaths from heart disease among group of patients using the drugs were twice as frequent as among comparable groups using insulin or even a diet with no drug treatment at all.
The New York Yankees move into a tie with Baltimore in the American League East with a sweep of the Cleveland Indians. The Yanks take the opener, 5–4, when Bobby Murcer’s third hit, a triple, scores Elliott Maddox with the winning run in the bottom of the 9th. Gaylord Perry takes his 20th loss. The Indians had the bases loaded with one out in the top of the ninth, when Tom McCraw lined a ball up the middle off Sandy Alomar’s glove — that deflected directly to shortstop Gene Michaels at second base, starting a freak double play. Larry Gura (5–0) wins the nightcap, 3–0, on 6 hits.
With 48,924 fans cheering against them — 27,287 in Fenway Park and the rest in Shea Stadium in New York — the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Boston Red Sox anyway last night in their mad race with the Yankees for the American League East title. Winning 2–1 , the Orioles made good use of one ingredient that has enabled them to win 19 of 24 games and charge from eight games behind on Aug. 29 into first place now: pitching.The Orioles already have pitching’s version of Murderer’s Row in Jim Palmer, Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar, who have won more games over a six‐year span than any three pitchers in baseball history. They’ve each been 20‐game winners four times. Ross Grimsiey rounds out the staff perfectly. He picked up his 18th victory last night as he spaced five hits over seven innings before leaving the game after a 50‐minute rain delay. Grant Jackson picked up his 12th save for pitching the last two innings.
The Chicago White Sox shut out the Oakland A’s, 2–0. The A’s lost for the sixth time on a nine‐game road trip and their lead in the West Division was reduced to four games over the Texas Rangers. The White Sox behind Bart Johnson’s three‐hit pitching for 7⅔ innings scored their runs in the sixth on a single by Jorge Orta and a double‐play grounder by Carlos May.
Nolan Ryan allows just 3 hits but absorbs his 16th loss of the season as the Minnesota Twins beat the California Angels, 3–2. Ryan walked seven. Joe Decker (16–12) is the winner. The Angels lost it in the seventh on a bizarre two-run error by first baseman John Doherty, who never saw the bases-loaded, one-out double play relay coming to him.
Detroit Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 8–5, as rookie Dan Meyer clouted two homers and John Knox capped a five-run seventh inning with a two-run single.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs, 5–2, to stay ahead of the rampaging Pirates, winners over the Mets. Rick Monday hits a leadoff home run for the Cubs, off Bob Forsch, but it is all downhill after that. Ted Simmons has a double and 3-run home run in the fourth off Bill Bonham to give him his 20th loss of the year. The Cardinals, who have won 10 of 13 games with the Cubs this season, were tied at 1–1 when Mike Tyson opened the big inning with a walk Bob Forsch reached base on a sacrifice Lou Brock and Reggie Smith singled and Simmons hit his homer, capping the four‐run inning.
Throwing mistakes by fielders and pitching wildness sink Ray Sadecki, as the New York Mets lose 4–3, to the Pittsburgh Pirates, after the Pirates rally for three in the bottom of the ninth inning to win. Sadecki was leading 3–1 with a five-hitter when he took the mound in the final frame and everything fell apart.
Steve Yeager’s fifth‐inning homer broke a 1–1 tie as the Los Angeles Dodgers maintained their mastery over the San Diego Padres with a 2–1 victory. They have beaten them 16 straight times dating back to the last three games of 1973. Yeager’s homer, his 11th came off Joe McIntosh who alowed just three hits in seven innings. Andy Messersmith won his 19th game in 25 decisions for the Dodgers who now lead Cincinnati by 3½ games in the West Division.
The Cincinnati Reds’ hopes of catching Los Angeles suffered a severe jolt when Gary Thomasson of the San Francisco Giants singled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth for a 4–3 win. An error by Dave Concepcion, the Reds shortstop, gave the Giants a 1–0 lead in the second, but the Reds tied the game on Johnny Bench’s homer in the fourth and took a 3–1 lead on a two‐run double by Tony Perez in the sixth. The Giants tied the score in the seventh, then took the final lead in the 8th.
The Atlanta Braves edged the Houston Astros, 1–0. Phil Niekro was the whole stary. The veteran knuckleballer held the Astros to four hits, and his sacrifice fly in the fifth scored the only run of the game.
The Philadelphia Phillies clobbered the Montreal Expos, 10–2. Steve Carlton (15–12) served up a four-hitter, and Del Unser and Willie Montanez each hit two-run homers. Montanez also had a double.
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Born:
Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer, in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
Paul Frew, Northern Irish politician (Minister for the Economy, 2021), in Kells, Northern Ireland.
Died:
Officer Gail Cobb, 24, of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, was shot and killed by a bank robbery suspect whom she was attempting to arrest, becoming the first female African-American police officer to be killed in the line of duty. Over 900 people attended her funeral on September 24 at the Holy Comforter Catholic Church in Southeast Washington, D.C., including FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley and Walter Washington, Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia, with 2,000 more mourners on the street outside.
Carlyle Blackwell Jr, 71, American actor (“The Pilgrim Lady”, “The Triumph of the Rat”).
Olle Hedberg, 75, Swedish author, committed suicide.
José Mojica, 79, Mexican Franciscan friar and former tenor and actor, died of a heart attack.
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