The Defense Department is conducting a study to determine whether to reduce the large stockpile of American nuclear weapons in Western Europe. The assumption among senior officials, including. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, is that the study will lead to the conclusion that, on military grounds, some of the weapons should be and could be withdrawn. The problem, however, is regarded as more political than military.
State Department officials said that Secretary of State Kissinger plans to propose some new “initiatives” in a major address to the United Nations General Assembly tomorrow morning on food, oil and nuclear problems. He is also scheduled to hold meetings on the Cyprus crisis with Greek and Turkish ministers while he is in New York.
About 8,000 Turkish Cypriots, who took haven on a British base on the island in July during the crisis between Turkey an Greece over Cyprus, have warned they are prepared to provoke British troops to fire on them in a campaign to achieve transportation to Turkey.
The poorest countries will be hit hardest by last year’s upheaval in world economic relationships, including the rise in oil prices and a slowdown in the growth rate of the industrial world, the World Bank said in its annual report. Like the annual report of its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank document took a gloomy view of economic prospects. “Without a major effort by the international community,” it said, “800 million people around the world can expect almost no improvement of their conditions of life for the rest of the decade.”
France’s Communist Party made slight gains at the expense of the Gaullists in balloting to fill about one-third of the 282 seats in the largely powerless Senate. The Senate’s members are elected by National Assembly deputies and by regional and municipal councilors. The Communists won two of the 88 contested seats to bring their representation in the Senate to 20. The Gaullists lost four seats but still have 212. The Socialists added one for a total of 50 seats.
British opinion polls showed a clear lead for Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labor Party over the Conservative Party in the Oct. 10 parliamentary election. But the small Liberal Party ran a strong third, leading political experts to say that perhaps no party will receive a clear majority and another deadlock may develop, as it did in the last election in February. The polls gave Labor between 40% and 45%, Conservatives between 33% and 36% and the Liberals 19% to 20%.
A group of Soviet abstract artists whose outdoor exhibit was torn down by police a little over a week ago, decided against accepting an offer by the city of Moscow to allow another showing next Saturday, one of the artists said. One of the artists, Oskar Rabin, said 14 members of the group met Saturday night and unanimously agreed to reject the city’s offer. Rabin said the group wanted to hold the show on Sunday so more people would be free to attend.
Ethiopia’s governing provisional military council set up a 46-member civilian advisory board. Diplomats said it was an attempt to defuse growing student and labor unrest in the East Africa nation. An official statement said the new body would be asked to draft a new constitution and propose social, economic and political reforms.
A woman opposition lawmaker in South Vietnam cut her finger and wrote a note in blood calling on President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to resign. The lower house deputy, Kiều Mộng Thu, wrote: “For food, clothing and peace for the compatriots, we demand that President Thiệu resign.” The act came at a rally at a Saigon pagoda. Several hundred other people, including Roman Catholic priests and Buddhist monks, attended the rally and formed a People’s Front Against Hunger.
Japan’s first nuclear‐powered ship, the Mutsu, has been drifting off the Pacific coast of Japan for the last three weeks unable to find a port.
For this country, which experienced the world’s only atomic bombings, the 8,214‐ton freighter committed a cardinal sin — her nuclear reactor leaked. And the radiation leakage occurred on the Mutsu’s first test run, after two years of being bottled up in port by public fears that the ship might be dangerous.
As a result of the radiation leakage, fishermen along the northern tip of Honshu, Japan’s main island where the Mutsu was based, have vehemently, opposed her return to port. The fishermen, who have threatened to block all harbors with their boats, charge that the Mutsu will contaminate their valuable scallop beds.
The mass cremation of bodies of people killed in the hurricane that swept Honduras was ordered by rescue officials to prevent epidemics. It was officially estimated that 5,000 people were killed and 60,000 made homeless. The Honduran army said that 2,700 bodies had been burned or buried at Choloma, a commercial center in the banana zone, and 1,000 at the port of La Ceiba.
CIA Director William Colby, in a rare on-the-record interview with TIME magazine’s Strobe Talbott, the translator of the Khrushchev memoirs, emphatically denied that the CIA was involved in the coups that toppled democratic governments in Chile and Greece last year and in 1967, respectively. Colby said, “Our program in Chile was to sustain the democratic forces against the Allende forces, which were suppressing various democratic elements in a variety of ways.” He added that Communist countries, including Russia, were active in Chile during the Allende government.
The head of the black-led transitional Government in Mozambique tried today to stem the flood of white settlers leaving the country. Joaquim A. Chissano, Premier in the Government that will lead Mozambique to full independence next June, said that whites who had left the country but had nothing to hide would be welcomed back: “Those that feel no guilt and were merely, drawn into the wave will be welcome if they return,” he said in an interview published in the newspaper Noticias in Maputo. “There is a place for everybody in Mozambique.”
Senator Edward Kennedy is expected to disclose his political plans tomorrow morning and there are strong indications that he has decided not to seek the presidency in 1976. His Boston office issued an announcement that he would hold a news conference there Monday. It did not specifically promise a statement on 1976, but a member of his staff said that was what Senator Kennedy’s announcement would be about.
A group of Americans in Toronto spent the weekend planning a boycott of President Ford’s conditional amnesty program for draft dodgers and deserters who have sought refuge in Canada and other countries. About 50 young men, speaking for the American-exile organizations in Canada as well as in France, Britain and Sweden, were unanimous in condemning the President’s offer of amnesty in exchange for periods of public service work.
Automobile owners who are trying to squeeze more mileage from their cars are finding that the cost of repairs has jumped 10 percent to 25 percent or more this year. In Manhattan, the owner of a garage estimates that repair and service costs have gone up as much as 50 percent in the last year. Nationally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the automobile maintenance costs in August were 11.3 percent higher than a year earlier. Enrollment In adult education classes in car repairs Is growing in many cities.
Justice Department lawyers investigating a tax fraud case reportedly recommended that the government seek an indictment on income tax evasion by Benton Becker, a Washington lawyer who is an aide to President Ford, a month before he was sent to California by the White House as its intermediary in Mr. Ford’s pardon for former President Nixon.
The grand jury system should be retained, the Justice Department said, but prosecutors should have the option of bypassing it. In responding to a proposed constitutional amendment by Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D-Pennsylvania) that would limit grand juries to an investigative role, the department argued that the panels still had a function, particularly in dealing with organized crime. Eilberg, who charged that the Nixon administration had used grand juries as instruments of oppression, called the Justice Department recommendations “worse than the present system.”
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger was reported to be “resting” in Bethesda Naval Hospital with his broken finger in a cast and his left arm in a sling to immobilize a chipped shoulder bone after a bicycle accident. Burger had been treated earlier at another hospital after he fell from his bicycle in trying to avoid a speeding car near his Arlington, Virginia, home. A Supreme Court spokesman said police believed Burger might have been struck a glancing blow by the car. He fell when trying to jump his bike onto a curb. The chief justice, who is 67, also suffered facial cuts and bruised ribs.
Greedy milk pricing by the Safeway food chain has “ripped off” both the farmer and the consumer, Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) charged. He said that Safeway’s price for powdered milk in the Washington area had averaged 84.8 cents a pound in July, when the wholesale price had been 58.45 cents. The chain’s stores were charging $1.06 in September, he said, when the federal government was buying powdered milk as a surplus commodity at 56.4 cents.
Ground will be broken for the new White House swimming pool around October 1, and President Ford should be able to resume his daily swims by the end of the year. Presidential counsel William E. Casselman said. that a public fund drive would raise the $300,000 to pay for the pool but that money from a commercial or private loan would be used to start construction. The fund drive, administered by the private, nonprofit National Park Foundation is similar to one used to pay for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White House pool.
A Nixon Justice Fund is being established to help pay the former President’s legal fees, Rabbi Baruch Korff announced in Jerusalem. The rabbi, who is in Israel for the Jewish New Year, said he had not consulted Richard M. Nixon on the establishment of the international fund but expected to get Mr. Nixon’s approval. Rabbi Korff had formed the American National Citizens’ Committee for Fairness to the Presidency to defend Mr. Nixon while he was still in the White House.
Offshore drilling and the building of new refineries and superports for giant oil tankers will be discussed in five days of energy hearings in Atlanta. The Federal Energy Administration apparently has concluded that there are strong economic arguments in favor of superports and new refineries, which have been opposed by some environmental groups. The hearings are the eighth in a series of 10 in which energy officials are seeking a wide range of views before submitting a long-range plan for Project Independence, designed to make the nation self-sufficient in energy.
Enough coal exists underground to feed the world’s energy needs for the next 400 years, the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe reported. A 1968 world energy conference estimated reserves of hard and brown coal at 8.8 billion tons. Assuming half the reserves were workable and that energy demand remained at about present world need, “there would be enough coal to meet. this demand for another 400 years,” the U.N. report said.
It was cold enough to be winter in the Midwest on the last day of summer. Record lows were set in an area that stretched from southern Missouri to Minnesota and from Nebraska to upper Michigan. The 34 in Chicago was the lowest summer temperature on record there. Temperatures such as 18 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, 23 at Duluth, Minnesota, 24 at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 26 at Minneapolis and 27 at Madison, Wisconsin, were record lows for so early in September. Up to four inches of snow fell in upper Michigan.
In the Gulf of Salerno, Italian freediver Enzo Maiorca attempted to set a new world depth record of 90 metres (300 ft) on live television. Less than 20 metres (66 ft) down, Maiorca collided with Enzo Bottesini, a diving expert and RAI correspondent. Maiorca surfaced and let out a stream of profanities that were audible to the television audience. He did not appear on television again until 2000.
Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi won the 1974 Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park in Ontario, Canada. Cale Yarborough won the Wilkes 400, a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race, at the North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina.
The New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians, 2–1, yesterday at Shea Stadium and retained their one-game lead in the American League’s Eastern Division. Bobby Murcer’s sixth-inning homer is the difference.
Boog Powell drove in three runs with three hits, including a homer, to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 7–2 victory over the Boston Red Sox today. Baltimore jumped on Boston’s starting pitcher, Reggie Cleveland, for three runs in the first before Diego Segui put down the uprising with the bases loaded. Powell popped a broken-bat single to shallow center to drive in a run in the first, belted his 11 th homer of the year into the Baltimore bullpen in right in the third and singled across another run in the fifth.
Jim Kaat stopped Oakland on five hits as the Chicago White Sox won, 3–1, today in a game in which the A’s hitting star, Reggie Jackson, was hurt. Jackson pulled his right hamstring muscle in the eighth and is expected to be out of action for a week.
The Texas Rangers scored three runs in the sixth with the aid of only one hit to beat the Kansas City Royals today, 4–3, and give Ferguson Jenkins his 24th victory.
The Detroit Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 6–5, pinning the 20th defeat of the year on Clyde Wright. Joe Coleman (14–12) got the win.
The Minnesota Twins downed the California Angels, 6–2, as Frank Tanana lost his 19th. Vic Albury won it for the Twins, with relief help from Billy Campbell in the seventh.
Ted Simmons’s run‐scoring single with two out in the ninth inning gave the St. Louis Cardinals a 6–5 victory over the Chicago Cubs today, increasing the Cardinals’ lead in the National League East to 1½ games over Pittsburgh. The game featured a brief fight between the teams in the top of the ninth that began with a disputed strike call and escalated.’ into players from both teams leaving their benches and scuffling on the field. None of the players was thrown out of the game. Lou Brock singled with one out in the bottom of the ninth and, one out later, Reggie Smith walked. Then Simmons drove his single to center field off Dave LaRoche, the losing pitcher. Simmons’s 19th home run and Smith’s double and two triples had put the Cardinals ahead, 4–1, before the Cubs wiped out the lead with the aid of shaky St. Louis fielding.
Dave Lopes hit a three‐run homer in the second and Joe Ferguson hit a two-run homer in the sixth as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres, 6–5, today and increased their lead over Cincinnati to 4½ games in the National League West. Rick Rhoden got the win with relief help from Mike Marshall.
John Montefusco pitched a seven‐hitter and hit a home run, and Dave Kingman hit a two‐run homer to carry the San Francisco Giants past the Cincinnati Reds, 6–0, today. The victory was the Giants’ third straight over the Reds, who have lost five of their last six games. Steve Ontiveros opened the second with a double, and Kingman unloaded with his 17th home run of the season, a towering drive into the leftfield stands off the losing pitcher, Don Gullett. Chris Speier then hit a home run on the next pitch. The Giants added a run in the sixth on a pair of walks and Speier’s two‐out double. Montefusco hit, his homer to lead off the eighth.
The New York Mets blanked the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–0, today behind the three-hit-pitching of Jon Matlack. And the hits were infield singles. The Pirates left after the game for St. Louis where they open a key three-game series tomorrow night against the first-place Cardinals. The victory was Matlack’s 13th as against 13 defeats. The shutout was the southpaw’s seventh of the season.
Houston Astros’ pitcher Tom Griffin delivers a pinch-hit single in the 14th to edge the Atlanta Braves, 3-2. The Astros score only when necessary — plating runs in the bottom of the ninth and the bottom of the tenth before winning it later. Ken Forsch picks up the victory.
Philadelphia and Montreal split their doubleheader. The Phillies won the opener, 3–2, as Jim Lonberg won his 16th. The Expos came back to take the nightcap, 8–5, as Mike Torrez got the victory.
NFL Football:
New Orleans Saints 0, Los Angeles Rams 24
Green Bay Packers 20, Baltimore Colts 13
New England Patriots 28, New York Giants 20
New York Jets 23, Chicago Bears 21
Minnesota Vikings 7, Detroit Lions 6
San Francisco 49ers 16, Atlanta Falcons 10
Houston Oilers 7, Cleveland Browns 20
Pittsburgh Steelers 35, Denver Broncos 35
Kansas City Chiefs 7, Oakland Raiders 27
Miami Dolphins 24, Buffalo Bills 16
St. Louis Cardinals 17, Washington Redskins 10
San Diego Chargers 20, Cincinnati Bengals 17
The Los Angeles Rams blew out the New Orleans Saints, 24–0 at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. In winning their second straight game Los Angeles kept control throughout. The Rams front four, Jack Youngblood, Merlin Olsen, Larry Brooks and Fred Dryer, consistently penetrated the Saints’ backfield to frustrate Archie Manning, the quarterback, and his running backs. They sacked Manning five times. The sacks resulted in a total loss of 40 yards. John Hadl, who completed 10 of 22 passes for 150 yards, passed for two touchdowns.
In the fourth quarter, the Baltimore Colts finally ended a string of 17 consecutive periods without scoring a touchdown, but they still came out with their second straight loss, falling to the Green Bay Packers, 20–13. The touchdown came on a 7‐yard pass from Bert Jones to Bill Olds and it followed a 45yard interference penalty call against Green Bay. MacArthur Lane scored twice for Green Bay before a crowd of 41,252, Baltimore’s smallest in 13 seasons.
Jim Plunkett threw three touchdown passes and running back Mack Herron scored twice as the New England Patriots upended the New York Giants, 28–20, today. The Patriots got some dazzling running by the 5-foot-5 Herron and wide receiver Randy Vataha, who hauled in a 38-yard scoring pass from Plunkett that tied the game, 14–14, early in the second period, 20 seconds after the Giants had taken a 14–7 lead as Herron ran back the kickoff 62 yards and, on the next play Vataha made an over-the-shoulder catch diving into the end zone.
The New York Jets nearly blew a 20-point lead and needed Bobby Howfield’s 39-yard field goal for a 23–21 victory over Chicago Sunday in their first-ever National Football League meeting. The game was marked by a wild finish in which the Bears were charged with three successive unsportsmanlike conduct penalties to move the Jets from midfield to the Chicago 9. Joe Namath had hurled a 30-yard touchdown pass to Rich Caster and his sharp tosses set up two other scores as New York built a 20–0 halftime lead. But the Bears rebounded on the second-half passing of Gary Huff, who flipped short scoring tosses to Carl Garrett and Bob Parsons in the third quarter.
The Minnesota Vikings edged the Detroit Lions, 7–6. The Vikings defeated the Lions for the 13th straight time as Chuck Foreman raced 11 yards for the game’s only touchdown. Minnesota tried repeatedly to give the game away. Detroit recovered two fumbles and blocked a punt, but could not turn any of the breaks into touchdowns.
The 49ers downed the Atlanta Falcons, 16-10, in Atlanta. San Francisco, in scoring its second straight upset victory, took advantage of a sputtering Falcon offense that turned the ball over six times — three on interceptions and three on fumbles. The interceptions hurt most as the 49ers turned two, by Skip Vanderbundt and Jimmy Johnson, into touchdowns in the first five minutes of the game.
Mike Phipps completed 15 of 29 passes for 141 yards to lead the Cleveland Browns to an easy 20–7 victory over the Houston Oilers. Coupled with a defense that forced six turnovers, the Browns beat Houston for the ninth straight time. Phipps passed for one touchdown and Greg Pruitt ran for another.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Broncos played to 35‐35 tie yesterday in Denver and it made National Football League history. It was the first regularseason game to require 15‐minute extra session since the rule was established to try and reduce the number of ties this season. It was also a day of personal history for Steve Davis, the Steelers’ running back. He scored three touchdowns, one Less than his entire output in 26 previous games, since Pittsburgh made him its No. 3 draft choice out of Delaware State in 1971. Davis scored in the first period on a 61‐yard screen pass from Joe Gilliam and added 1‐yard touchdown runs in the second and third quarters. His final score was set up when Joe Greene blasted Charley Johnson, injuring the Bronco quarterback’s shoulder, and Mike Wagner picked off the wobbly pass at the Denver 32. It also was a day of more glory for Gilliam, the Steeler quarterback, who engineered three second-half scoring drives to rally his team from a two‐touchdown deficit. Gilliam completed 31 of 50 passes for 348 yards and one touchdown.
Six days after having been upset in their opener at Buffalo, the Oakland Raiders reestablished themselves as the team to beat in the Western Division of the American Football Conference by beating the Kansas City Chiefs today, 27–7. Ken Stabler threw three touchdown passes including two to rookie tight end Dave Casper, as the Oakland Raiders took advantage of Kansas City mistakes. The Raiders collected four interceptions of Chief passes; Skip Thomas had two of them, both of which set up Oakland touchdowns.
Bob Griese’s two touchdown passes, Mercury Morris’ scoring run and a lastminute field goal carried the Miami Dolphins to a 24–16 victory over Buffalo. Griese’s passes, 1 yard to Jim Mandich and 3 to Marv Fleming, were set up by Miami recoveries of Buffalo fumbles. O. J. Simpson lost the ball early in the second period, and Doug Swift recovered for the Dolphins on the Bills’ 1. On the second play of the third period, Jim Braxton fumbled and Miami’s Jake Scott picked up the ball and scampered 14 yards to the Buffalo 9. Griese hit Fleming following two running plays.
The Cardinals beat the Washington Redskins, 17–10. St. Louis put together two touchdowns within two minutes for its second surprising victory of the young season and then its defense blunted two late Redskin scoring attempts to assure the victory. Ron Yankowski, a defensive end, picked up a Washington fumble and returned it 71 yards for a touchdown. Terry Metcalf raced 75 yards for the other score. Duane Thomas replaced the injured Larry Brown as a Redskin running back and carried 26 times for 96 yards.
The San Diego Chargers upset the Cincinnati Bengals, 20–17, at Cincinnati. Don Fouts, a second‐year pro and a questionable starter earlier in the week because of a leg injury, directed a 98‐yard fourth quarter touchdown drive that provided San Diego with its second victory — since midseason last year. Fouts, who became the quarterback with John Unitas’s retirement, scored the deciding touchdown at the end of the drive on a one-yard plunge.
Born:
Gary Trent, NBA power forward, small forward, and center (Portland Trailblazers, Toronto Raptors, Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves), in Columbus, Ohio.
Terry Guess, NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints), in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress (“Cool”), in South Korea (d. 2014).
Died:
Jessica Daves, 76, American writer and editor, former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, died of cancer.
Winfried Otto Schumann, 86, German physicist.
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