In Moscow, over 30,000 people came to an open-air show of contemporary nonconformist art in Izmaylovsky Park. The display was approved by Soviet authorities after foreign criticism of the September 15 disruption of the exhibition at Bitsa Park. They were five, six and even 10 deep in a huge field to get a glimpse of 200 paintings displayed by about 65 artists. There were no incidents of repression by the authorities. One artist commented to a reporter, “We have had four hours of freedom here this afternoon.”.
Two days of talks by the finance ministers of the United States, Japan, West Germany, Britain and France ended in Washington with no indication that they had agreed on action to meet the problems caused by rising oil prices. It was reported unofficially that the ministers had decided this was no time to act on the issue of oil prices, but all agreed that a lower price was a crucial long-term goal.
Cypriot supporters of ousted President Archbishop Makarios packed the main square of the south coastal city of Limassol to demand his immediate return. Police estimated 30,000 people attended the rally, the first pro-Makarios demonstration since the July 15 coup by the Greek-led Cypriot National Guard. The crowd chanted, “Makarios is coming” and waved placards denouncing the pro-Greek EOKA underground, which along with anti-Makarios factions had rallied in the same square a week earlier. As the crowd began to gather, a fusilade of shots fatally wounded an elderly Greek Cypriot. The Makarios supporters said that pro‐Greek EOKA‐B gunmen had fired the shots to try to prevent people from attending the rally, the first in support of the Archbishop since he was forced to flee abroad.
Three Democratic congressmen criticized the Ford Administration for continuing military aid to Turkey despite House and Senate resolutions demanding an end to the arms shipments. Reps. Benjamin S. Rosenthal of New York, John Brademas of Indiana and Paul S. Sarbanes of Maryland said negotiations aimed at a peaceful settlement of the war with Greece on Cyprus could not begin while American aid to Turkey continues.
Polls and bookmakers gave British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s ruling Labor Party a solid lead over opposition Conservatives in the October 10 parliamentary elections. London bookmakers said the odds were 2 to 5 in Labor’s favor, 6 to 4 against the Conservatives and 100 to 1 against third-party Liberals. A weekend Louis Harris poll gave Labor 38% of the vote, the Conservatives 29% and the Liberals 17% with 16% undecided. Wilson called the early election in an attempt to win the clear majority he failed to gain in February.
The Golden Hinde, a replica of Sir Francis Drake’s 16th century ship, set sail from Plymouth, England, on a five-month voyage to San Francisco after being blessed by the bishop of Plymouth with the same prayer used at Drake’s departure more than 300 years ago. The vessel, built for $1 million for a consortium of San Francisco businessmen, was constructed with 16th century materials and techniques, but its 16-man crew will have a few things Drake’s men didn’t have — modern steering gear, a radio and a 50-h.p. auxiliary engine.
Two men were held by police in the Irish Republic after an apparent attempt to bomb a British army post from a hijacked aircraft. At about the time the plane was hijacked and the pilot forced to fly over the border, 20 members of the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army were shooting at a British army post at Crossmaglen on the north side of the border. Army sources said the air mission apparently was to coincide with the ground attack. The two men were seized after the plane made an emergency landing.
Israeli military officials said today that Israeli soldiers have been crossing into Lebanon nightly in search of suspected guerrilla hideouts and stopping vehicles on a Lebanese road parallel to the border to search them for for terrorists and weapons. The officials said the measures were designed to prevent attacks by Arab terrorists, which they said tended to increase at this time of year as Arabs sought to disrupt the Jewish holiday season and to make an impression on the United Nations General Assembly. This weekend an Arab was killed and three others were seriously injured when a bus was bombed on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. An Israeli officer was killed in an ambush on the Lebanese border, and a Palestinian guerrilla Was killed in a battle after the ambush. The Israeli bus was taking 40 Arab workers from the Gaza strip to jobs in this area. It has not yet been determined whether the bomb was planted by terrorists to punish Arabs working for the Israelis or whether it was intended for Israelis but exploded accidentally.
Later today, a bomb was detected in a Jerusalem bus by a woman passenger traveling from the Arab sector to the Jewish part of the city. It was dismantled by policemen. Army officers here said that nearly all the terrorist attempts in the last few months had been. thwarted by the armed forces or alert civilians. But they were increasing vigilance, nonetheless. The strongest measures have been taken on the borders of Lebanon, where the guerrillas have been most active this year. Besides the patrols and automobile searches there has been some shelling to harass the guerrillas in their bases. Explosions were heard last night and today and columns of smoke and dust were seen across the border.
There has been no resistance by Lebanese forces to the Isralei patrols. Israelis contend that Lebanon has done nothing to restrain the terrorists. As a witness they produced Khaled Mahmoud Yassin, who was said to have been captured on the night of September 3 in an encounter with Israeli forces near the border. He said he was a member of the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and that he had crossed the border with two others to capture Israeli hostages and to murder them unless, the Israelis agreed to give up convicted terrorists in exchange. The prisoner said on Israeli television tonight that the Lebanese Army could have prevented his squad from crossing the border if it had wanted to. “They have connections and spies in every village,” he said. “This includes the Second Bureau, intelligence. It is clear they were officially aware of our presence.”
The major oil exporting countries are discussing the possibility of holding an emergency ministerial meeting next month on the mounting consumer pressure, led by the United States, for lower prices. In the last nine months, folJowing the dramatic oil price increases in October and December last year, several leading oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, have supported the idea of An international conference of oil producers and consumers. The members of the 13‐nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have repeatedly expressed concern over the efforts sponsored by Secretary of State Kissinger to organize consumers and influence developing countries in opposition to oil price levels established by the major producers.
Regular commercial air service began between Japan and the People’s Republic of China with a direct flight from Tokyo to Beijing exactly two years after the 1972 establishment of diplomatic relations.
Mexico has reportedly been asked unofficially if she would give asylum to political prisoners held by the Dominican Republic whose release has been demanded by leftist guerrillas holding six hostages in the Venezuelan consulate in Santo Domingo. The guerrillas have indicated that they will leave the country peacefully if the 37 political prisoners are allowed to leave with them.
Argentine police used tear gas to disperse a funeral procession of about 3,000 people accompanying the coffin of slain left-wing lawyer Silvio Frondizi to the cemetery in Buenos Aires. Then the police took over the two hearses and sped to the cemetery. Frondizi, 67, a brother of former President Arturo Frondizi, was murdered Friday. An organization calling itself the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance claimed responsibility.
TIME magazine reported that former President Richard M. Nixon had called President Ford two weeks ago and offered to return his pardon but that Mr. Ford rejected the offer. Sources said, however, that the offer had been made in an off-hand manner and Mr. Ford had taken it that way, brushing off the gesture without attaching importance to it. Mr. Nixon reportedly prefaced his offer by saying he was sorry for all the trouble the pardon was causing the President. White House sources said much of the conversation was small talk. Another news magazine, Newsweek, reported that on the day of the pardon Mr. Nixon had told his wife, “This is the most humiliating day of my life.”
The Watergate conspiracy cover-up will go to trial Tuesday morning, two years and three months after the cover-up began and nearly two months after it caused the final collapse of the Nixon presidency. There will be either five or six defendants, depending on how federal Judge John Sirica rules on a pending motion. Among them are John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, and H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, who had been chief White House assistants.
Betty Ford was showered with flowers and get‐well notes today after what doctors described as “a reasonably good night” following surgery yesterday for the removal of her right breast to prevent the spread of cancer. A bulletin from Bethesda Naval Medical Center reported that the 56‐year‐old First Lady’s “post‐operative course continues to be satisfactory” and that she was expected to have “short periods of sitting and walking.”
Administration officials said that President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger ordered various government agencies late last week to stop lobbying for a new foreign aid bill, in an effort to block amendments that would restrict presidential freedom of action in foreign affairs. Rather than trying for a new bill, the officials said, the administration sought to extend foreign aid spending by means of a continuing resolution based on last year’s legislation.
Senator Robert J. Dole (R-Kansas), fighting an uphill battle for his political life, laid a large share of the blame on President Ford for his underdog status in the polls. “I think so,” he replied when asked on the CBS program “Face the Nation” whether Mr. Ford had become an issue in the campaign, where Democrat Rep. William R. Roy is shown far ahead in the traditionally Republican state, Dole said Kansas Republicans had been encouraged when Mr. Ford first took office, but “along came the pardon of former President Richard M. Nixon and amnesty. I really don’t need any more help of that kind before November.”
Senator Walter F. Mondale (D-Minnesota) called for President Ford to hire new economic advisers who understand the problems facing the average American taxpayer. At the same time, Alan Greenspan, new chairman of Mr. Ford’s Council of Economic Advisers, said the two-day economic summit held last week had shown there was no “quick fix” to the nation’s economic ills. Mondale, who is a probable presidential contender in 1976, said Mr. Ford must decide “whether he is going to break with the six years of Nixon Republican economics,” which he called a “classic failure.”
Nearly 1,000 land development companies have been told by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that they may be in violation of federal law requiring the Filing of accurate sales reports. A HUD statement said most of the firms were situated in the Ozark Mountain area, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina. The law requires developers with 50 or more lots and operating in interstate commerce to register with HUD. They must also file a report that “accurately reflects the current status of subdivision offered for sale.” A spokesman said 973 developers were given 15 days to respond.
Forty New York City detectives canvassed apartments, bars, hotels and restaurants along and near West 79th Street searching for details which could shed light on the murder and dismemberment of police officer Patrick Kelly. One line of the investigation is centering on homosexual bars and gathering places in the upper West Side. The medical examiner’s office hopes to establish some time tomorrow the time of the officer’s death. The dismembered body was found early Saturday on West 79th Street.
Consumers Union has filed suit demanding a refund for drivers who bought no-lead gasoline earlier this year before the price was lowered. The suit asked U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to order the Federal Energy Administration to make restitution to consumers who purchased the unleaded gasoline between last June 1 and July 10, when it was selling at the same prices as premium-about 4 cents a gallon higher than regular. The current temporary price for no-lead gasoline -no more than one cent a gallon above regular-was established by the FEA after Consumers Union protested that it was unfairly pegged to the premium price.
A hormone used to fatten beef cattle that was banned by the Food and Drug Administration last year is probably not hazardous to humans, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Diethylstibestrol, commonly known as DES, was used for years by U.S. cattlemen for the more rapid production of lean meat. Dr. Thomas H. Jukes, a biochemist-nutritionist at UC-Berkeley, says, however, that the small amounts of DES remaining in cattle after slaughter create virtually no risk of cancer. Although the 1973 FDA ban was overturned by a federal court on a technicality, most cattle growers are refraining from using it until the issue is settled.
The disclosure of a quietly arranged trans-Pacific shipment to Japan of strip-mined Montana coal has touched off an angry new wave of opposition by Montana ranchers to the state’s impending coal boom. There was no announcement — efforts were made to keep it “privy” — of a shipment last August of 10,000 tons of coal from a cattle-grazing region.
Energy experts say the nation’s supplies will meet winter needs in every field except natural gas — if the Arabs do not renew the oil embargo, if the weather is normal and if citizens conserve. The outlook is bleak for natural gas users, especially along the Eastern Seaboard, where, the Federal Power Commission says, curtailments are expected to run 80% higher this year. The American Petroleum Institute has reported steadily increasing inventories of major refined oil products for months.
A critical shortage of minerals and materials is threatening the United States, according to John Kyl, assistant secretary of the interior. “We’ll have a crisis in materials within five years,” he said. Kyl said America’s mining industry has not developed the technology to fully utilize existing resources. “We’ve got to quit treating minerals and timber as disposable items,” he said. “We’ve got to reclaim them again and again.” Kyl said the coming shortage of minerals would be made more severe by demand from developing countries for ores that the United States exports.
Americans Norbert Sander and Kathrine Switzer won the men’s and women’s races of the 1974 New York City Marathon. Sander remains the only native New Yorker to win the New York City Marathon.
Earl Ross, a resident of Ontario, became the first (and as of 2024, only) Canadian to win a NASCAR Cup Series race, finishing in first place at the Old Dominion 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.
Four walks in the bottom of the 9th give the Baltimore Orioles a 4–3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. Jim Slaton loaded the bases with three straight passes, then reliever Tom Murphy walked Boog Powell with two out to force in the winning run.
The Yankees stay a half game behind the O’s as New York wallops the Cleveland Indians, 10–0, in Cleveland. Rudy May strikes out 13 and yields just four hits in the shutout.
In Detroit, the Boston Red Sox were mathematically eliminated as the Tigers downed the Sox, 7–4. Al Kaline drove in a run with his 3,005th career hit.
The Texas Rangers clinched second place in the American League West by beating the Kansas City Royals, 5–0. Bill Hands threw the six-hit shutout. Jim Spencer’s two-run homer in the sixth was all Hands needed; but the Rangers got three insurance runs in the ninth.
The California Angels blanked the Minnesota Twins, 4–0. Andy Hassler pitched the shutout, holding the Twins to just five hits. Bert Blyleven lost to even his record at 17–17.
The Oakland A’s edged the Chicago White Sox, 3–2. Phil Garner had three hits and scored twice. Manny Trillo had two RBIs for the A’s.
Lou Brock steals his 118th, and final, base of the season in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 7–3 win over the Chicago Cubs. The St. Louis Cardinals pulled even with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the East with three games remaining. Jose Cruz’ pinch three-run homer in the sixth inning helped the Cardinals beat the Cubs.
The New York Mets’ rookie pitcher Bob Apodaca hurls a three-hitter and beats the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7–2, to drop the Bucs back into a 1st place tie with the Cardinals.
The Cincinnati Reds kept the Los Angeles Dodgers’ champagne on ice for at least another day when Johnny Bench’s three-run home run carried them to their sixth victory in a row Sunday, 7–3, over the San Francisco Giants. Clay Kirby (12–9) got the victory.
In Montreal, Ken Singleton hits a first–inning grand slam to lead the Montreal Expos to a 6–3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Cliff Johnson’s three-run homer in the eighth inning lifted the Houston Astros to a 9–6 victory over the Atlanta Braves Sunday. With two out in the eighth, Roger Metzger walked, Cesar Cedeno singled to center and Johnson belted his ninth home run of the season, over the fence in left-center.
NFL Football:
Cleveland Browns 7, St. Louis Cardinals 29
Baltimore Colts 10, Philadelphia Eagles 30
Kansas City Chiefs 17, Houston Oilers 7
Chicago Bears 7, Minnesota Vikings 11
Oakland Raiders 17, Pittsburgh Steelers 0
New York Jets 12, Buffalo Bills 16
Atlanta Falcons 13, New Orleans Saints 14
Cincinnati Bengals 21, San Francisco 49ers 3
Los Angeles Rams 14, New England Patriots 20
Miami Dolphins 28, San Diego Chargers 21
Detroit Lions 19, Green Bay Packers 21
New York Giants 14, Dallas Cowboys 6
The St. Louis Cardinals thrashed the Cleveland Browns, 29–7. Fleetfooted Terry Metcalf returned the opening kickoff of the second half 94 yards for a touchdown with the help of what he said were “five key blocks.” Less than 4 minutes later Mel Gray scored on a 68‐yard pass play with Jim Hart and the Cardinals were assured of their third straight victory. The St. Louis defense allowed only its second touchdown of the season and except for that score, Cleveland never got past the Cardinals’ 22‐yard line. It was the first meeting between the teams since the pro football merger five years ago.
The Philadelphia Eagles demolished the Baltimore Colts, 30–10. It took hapless Baltimore to revive the Eagles’ lost offense. Roman Gabriel, the Philadelphia quarterback in his 13th pro season, completed 17 of 25 passes for 206 yards and passed for the Eagles’ first two touchdowns. Gabriel also handed off for 133 yards in the running game that opened the Colts’ defenses for his passing. Tom Sullivan rushed for 93 yards and scored touchdowns on runs of 28 and 3 yards.
Howard Schnellenberger was dismissed as head coach of the Baltimore Colts today after the National Football League team’s 30–10 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Colts’ owner, Robert Irsay, told the team in the locker room after the game that he was turning over the coaching duties to the general manager, Joe Thomas. The Colts have lost three straight games this season. The selection of Thomas, a former Colts’ assistant coach, was not greeted with enthusiasm by the team’s quarterback, Marty Domres. “There is no way that Joe Thomas can turn this team around,” Domres said, adding that Schnellenberger was a “good coach.” After Thomas became general manager two years ago, he traded 23 players from the Colts’ 1970 Super Bowl championship team.
The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Houston Oilers, 17–7. After a sluggish, scoreless first half in which neither team could gain 100 yards on offense, the Chief’s recovered with a 35‐yard field goal by Jan Stenerud and touchdowns by Willie Ellison and Morris Stroud for their second victory in three games.
The Minnesota Vikings defeated the Chicago Bears, 11–7. Fran Tarkenton completed the 250th pass of his 14‐season career,, an 11‐yarder to Stu Voight, tight end, and the Vikings gained their third straight Central Division victory. Over all, Tarkenton completed, 16 of 25 passes for 166 yards. The Viking defense foiled two Chicago drives, one by Paul Krause’s 63rd career interception. Krause leads the active N.F.L. players in that department.
The Oakland Raiders smothered the Pittsburgh Steelers, 17–0. The Raiders inflicted the first shutout on the Steelers in 132 games. The last Steeler shutout was in 1964 when they were beaten by the Washington Redskins, 30–0. Oakland, ranked No. 1 in pass defense, limited Joe Gilliam, who led the N.F.L. in passing going into the game, to 106 yards. Gilliam completed eight of 31 passes.
Jim Braxton’s 21-yard fourth-period touchdown run carried the Buffalo Bills to a 16–12 victory over the New York Jets Sunday in a game played in strong, gusty winds and driving rain. The touchdown came eight plays after Buffalo took over at midfield following Greg Gantt’s 25-yard punt into the wind, which at times gusted to 45 mph. The Jets, trailing 10–6 at the half, took a 12–10 lead in the third period on Bobby Howfield’s field goals from 31 and 40 yards. Conditions were so terrible that only two passes were completed in the game. Joe Namath completed just 2-of-18 for 33 yards, with three interceptions. The Bills’ Joe Ferguson did not even bother: He only threw twice, completing neither.
Jess Phillips’s 8‐yard touchdown run with 5 minutes remaining gave the New Orleans Saints a 14–13 triumph and pushed the Atlanta Falcons into undisputed possession of the Western Division cellar. The winning touchdown came one play after Haskel Stanback had fumbled and Elex Price of the Saints had recovered. Stanback’s fumble ble came two plays after the Falcons had intercepted an Archie Manning pass to end a Saints’ drive.
The Cincinnati Bengals dominated the San Francisco 49ers, 21–3. Ken Anderson, the Bengals’ quarterback, took advantage of the inexperienced 49ers’ secondary and threw 22- and 48-yard scoring passes to Isaac Curtis. Curtis got behind Ralph McGill, in his first season as a cornerback starter, and Mike Holmes, a free safety who started his first N.F.L. game.
By beating the Los Angeles Rams yesterday at Foxboro, Massachusetts, 20–14, the upstart New England Patriots remained one of the three undefeated teams in the league. The Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Cardinals are the others. “Just too much,” said Chuck Fairbanks, the Patriot coach. “It’s remarkable to me that we could really beat that team with all the talent and years of experience they have. The key thing was the play of the defensive team. They came through in the clutch. Jim Plunkett was pretty damned good too, though, most of the time.” Plunkett completed 14 of 25 passes for 189 yards and two touchdowns. The former Heisman Trophy winner’s big completion was to Randy Vataha, his favorite target when they were teammates at Stanford. It was a 21‐yard scoring pass that Vataha snared on the Rams’ 3 with 3 minutes 56 seconds remaining.
A 5‐yard off‐tackle smash by Jim Kiick with 15 seconds left gave the Miami Dolphins a 28–21 victory over the San Diego Chargers after they had trailed, 21–7. Nat Moore, who had scored an earlier touchdown, returned a low punt 30 yards to the Charger 42 with 1:50 left to set up the final scored. Don Woods, a free agent who failed in earlier tryouts with Dallas and Green Bay, raced 56 yards off tackle in the third quarter for his second touchdown to build up the charger lead.
The Green Bay Packers edged the Detroit Lions, 21–19. Chester Marcol’s fourth field goal of the game, a 22‐yard fourthdown kick with 1:03 remaining, was the margin of victory for the mistake‐prone Packers. Errol Mann booted four field goals for the Lions and had a 47‐yard attempt fall short with 18 seconds left. Green Bay trailed their Central Division rival through much of the game, despite holding a slight statistical edge. Packer errors led to 13 Lion points.
Norm Snead guided New York to two touchdowns within a 64-second span of the second quarter Sunday and the defense, led by John Mendenhall, harassed Dallas to the point of frustration, bringing the Giants a 14–6 upset victory over the Cowboys. Snead hit. Bob Grim with a 50-yard pass to set up New York’s first touchdown which came on a two-yard run by rookie Doug Kotar. After the Cowboys’ Dennis Morgan fumbled the kickoff, Snead found running back Joe Dawkins with a 14-yard scoring pass. It was then left to the Giant defense, which gave Cowboy quarterback Roger Staubach one of his most frustrating days as a professional. Staubach was sacked six times by the Giant rush, was forced to scramble two other times and threw three interceptions to New York cornerback Eldridge Small, linebacker Pat Hughes and safety Chuck Crist. Forced to go to the air almost exclusively in the second half, Staubach completed 20 of 37 passes for 256 yards, had several passes dropped, and received the loudest chorus of boos from Cowboy fans he has ever received in Texas Stadium. The only consolation Staubach received was throwing a 35-yard touchdown pass to Bob Hayes with 11 seconds left in the game.
Born:
Dedric Ward, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 38-Patriots, 2003; New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys), in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Doug Brown, Canadian NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins), in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.
Jeff Sheppard, NBA shooting guard (Atlanta Hawks), in Marietta, Georgia.
Andrea Rosen, American comedian and actress, in New York, New York.
Died:
David Meirhofer, 25, American serial killer, hanged himself at the Gallatin County Jail in Bozeman, Montana.
Helen Schnabel, 63, American concert pianist, died of cancer.
Billie Pierce (born Wilhelmina Madison Goodson), 67, American jazz pianist and singer.
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