The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed two pubs frequented by British Army personnel in Guildford, Surrey in England, killing five people and injuring 54. All of the dead and most of the injured were inside The Horse and Groom at 8:30 in the evening when the first bomb detonated, left under a table by two terrorists posing as a man and woman on a date. The second bomb exploded at The Seven Stars, which had been evacuated after the first bombing, but was being searched by pub employees. A constable put the death toll at five — three men and two women at the Horse and Groom pub where the first blast went off. Two of the men were military personnel, he said. The total injured in both explosions was put at 54, including 13 members of the Women’s Royal Army Corps who were hospitalized. The targets were known soldier hangouts. A birthday party was in progress at one. Two more pubs were bombed in London on October 11, without fatalities.
A man was killed in Northern Ireland early today when the bomb he was carrying on a motorcycle exploded, the police said. The explosion was on the main Belfast to Dublin road near the border with the Irish Republic and close to a customs house that has been a frequent target for bomb attacks by Irish extremists. In Belfast, a fire bomb disguised as a parcel went off in the city’s main post office this morning, causing only slight damage. Another fire bomb was discovered and defused in Londonderry.
The Soviet Communist party leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, arrived in East Berlin today where he will attend celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of East Germany. He was met at Schönefeld Airport by the East German Communist party leader, Erich Honecker, and stood in an open limousine for the ride to Niederschönhausen Palace, where he will stay during this three‐day visit. Both men waved and smiled happily to crowds that had assembled hours earlier to greet them along the way. Many were members of the Free German Youth organization, which is to stage a giant torchlight parade tomorrow night to mark the anniversary. On Monday the East German Army will hold a parade. This is Mr. Brezhnev’s first visit since May, 1973.
The United States and the Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up joint teams of experts for cooperation in the development and transmission of energy. At the ceremony in Washington, John C. Sawhill, the federal energy administrator, signed for the United States, and Peter S. Neporozhniy, the Soviet minister of power, signed for his country. The agreement is a spinoff from an energy pact signed last June in Moscow by former President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev.
The name of Portugal’s former dictator, the late Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, was removed today from Europe’s longest suspension bridge in one manifestation of the renewed revolutionary fervor now sweeping the country. The graceful 3,323‐foot span over the Tagus River here was renamed the 25th of April Bridge to commemorate the coup last spring that swept away a regime that had been dominated by Dr. Salazar for some 40 years. Last weekend, according to the Government and the leftist forces supporting it, a rightist plot to restore the old regime was uncovered and a large number of persons were arrested. The reported plot, combined with the resignation Monday of President Antonio de Spinola, has created confusion and doubt about the democratic program begun in April, and the Government has been at pains all week to reassure Portuguese and foreign opinion that nothing has changed and that the country will move to its scheduled elections next March. Centrists and conservatives are not completely reassured despite the renewed promises by the new President, General Francisco da Costa Gomes, and by the Premier, Brig. Gen. Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves.
A small cargo ship on fire and abandoned in the English Channel with 150 tons of dynamite in its hold was reported still afloat at nightfall after an attempt by French naval planes to sink it. A French Navy escort vessel is standing by the coaster to warn away shipping in the busy sea lanes 35 miles west of the island of Guernsey. The 420‐ton ship, the Ammetrsete, of Cypriot registry, lef Bordeaux early in September for Kuwait but soon afterward reported engine trouble. She was refused permission to enter Bilbao Spain, because of her cargo and headed north. The Ammersee was reported bound for a German port when fire broke out last night. The five crewmen were taken off by the Austrian ship Rosweitha.
President Houari Boumediene of Algeria has told the United Nations that “certain large industrial countries are launching a veritable offensive against the oil exporting countries.” The denunciation was clearly aimed at the United States, although no target was identified. Big industrial nations, Mr. Boumediene said, are using their economic and political power to roll back oil prices and are not afraid that in such a confrontation all mankind may be “dragged to the brink of the abyss.”
As an aftermath of the summer floods in rural Bangladesh, many villagers who in good times hope to eat one meal a day now eat one meal every other day or every third day. Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw, an authority on world malnutrition, said the result of the prolonged hunger was malnutrition, which hits children hardest, killing many and leaving others stunted both mentally and physically. In the nations hit by crop failures due to floods and droughts, such as India, Pakistan, Indonesia and the sub-Sahara countries of Africa, an estimated 15 million children die each year before the age of 5. This figure represents a quarter of all deaths in the world.
Thailand’s National Assembly gave almost unanimous approval today to a new constitution that it hopes will provide stable, democratic government here for the first time since absolute monarchy was abandoned 42 years ago. The bill, approved 280 to 6, was sent to King Phumiphol Aduldet for his signature. Student activists had demanded provisions for lowering the voting age from 20 to 18 and “controlling” foreign — mostly American — troops stationed in Thailand. But the students, whose uprising last fall precipitated the drive for a new constitution, tempered their protests when it became apparent the legislators would approve the bill.
Mexican President Luis Echeverria said he might meet with President Ford on the northern Mexican border during the last 10 days of October to discuss the problem of migrant farm workers. Mexico has pushed for a quota system to regulate the growing traffic of workers illegally crossing into the United States. Meanwhile, Mexican authorities confiscated more than 600,000 packages of cigarettes to prevent hoarding after Echeverria’s announcement of price controls to combat inflation. Speculators have already bought milk and beans in quantity.
Dominican police installed crank-type field telephones at the Venezuelan Embassy in Santo Domingo where six leftist guerrillas are holding seven hostages, including the U.S. information officer, Barbara A. Hutchinson. There was no explanation from the government, which had said the day before that it had no intention of negotiating with the terrorists. Government sources said the leader of the terrorists, Radhames Mendez Vargas, and the police commander on duty talked for about 10 minutes on the phones but the gist of the conversation was not reported.
The president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Capt. Gustavo Jaren Ampudia, was dismissed today as Ecuador’s Minister of Natural Resources. A Government spokesman said that Captain Jaren Ampudia, a naval officer, was to be sent to London as naval attaché. He was expected to resign from his O.P.E.C. post. No reason for Captain Jarrin Ampdia’s dismissal was given, but observers said it appeared to be linked to domestic politics. The minister was widely regarded as the architect of an effective oil policy in Ecuador, but conservative politicians here have criticized him for making anti‐American statements and for putting leftists in important positions in the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile’s military junta, said that national policy changes recommended by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) were unacceptable coming from a foreign politician. Correspondence between the two men last May was published last week, in which Kennedy wrote that Pinochet ought to consider ending the state of internal war and asked for constitutional guarantees and civil courts, among other things. Pinochet replied that Kennedy’s suggestions were a clear demonstration of imperialist mentality.
A top Marxist resistance leader in Chile, Miguel Enriquez, 30, was killed in a fierce gun battle with government security forces in San Miguel, the military junta said. Enriquez publicly supported the regime of the late President Salvador Allende but criticized it for going too slow in expropriating private farmland. The killing of Enriquez apparently came about from the work of military intelligence agents who have been regularly discovering arms caches in recent months.
African guerrilla movements in the Portuguese colony of Angola are continuing to go their separate ways, raising serious questions about when and under what conditions that oiland‐diamond‐rich territory might become independent. Appeals by respected black African leaders to the guerrilla factions urging them to unite for the sake of negotiations with Portugal have consistently failed. The seriousness of the situation is pointed up by the fact that the independence of Portugal’s smallest African colony, Portuguese Guinea, now Guinea‐Bissau, was recognized by Lisbon last month, while Mozambique, the East African colony, will become an independent nation next summer. And, since the guerrillas of the central African territory of Angola seem unable to agree to negotiate with Portugal, there is a growing fear in African diplomatic circles that competition between guerrilla groups for support inside Angola might lead to armed conflict among those groups.
Dave Kunst became the first person verified to have traveled around the world on foot, arriving back at his home at Waseca, Minnesota, after having left there, with his brother John, on June 20, 1970. Kunst covered an estimated 14,450 kilometres (8,980 mi) in his journey. John had been shot to death by bandits in Afghanistan in 1972.
Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller disclosed that he had made gifts of $50,000 to Henry Kissinger, $86,000 to L. Judson Morhouse, the former New York Republican state chairman, and an undisclosed sum to Dr. William Ronan, now chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In a move to head off any political repercussions that might jeopardize his nomination, the former Governor responded to reports of the gifts by issuing details and explanations of each. A source close to the Senate Rules Committee, which held hearings on Mr. Rockefeller’s nomination, said the panel might seek further explanations of the gifts.
The nation will go back to standard time for a four-month period starting October 27 under a bill signed by President Ford. Clocks and watches will be moved back an hour on that date. On February 23, daylight saving time will return. The legislation amended a 1973 law that established year-long daylight savings to conserve energy.
Betty Ford marked the end of a week of hospitalization for removal of a cancerous breast by walking around her hospital suite and eating a hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon and toast. President Ford said her doctors had told him she would be discharged from Bethesda Naval Medical Center “next Wednesday or thereabouts… There’s no use hurrying her out of there.” The President and Bob Hope, his golfing companion Saturday afternoon, visited Mrs. Ford a couple of hours before a reception at the White House for the Washington diplomatic corps.
Vietnam war deserters and draft dodgers have been arriving at a rate of more than 50 a day in the last week at Camp Attebury, Indiana, under President Ford’s conditional amnesty plan. Officers said 932 persons had arrived seeking clemency since the program began, 472 of them “walk-ins” — persons not previously in custody.
Representatives of two grain companies, after meeting with President Ford and other administration officials, have agreed to cancel a $500 million shipment of wheat and corn to the Soviet Union. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz said the government could have ordered the shipment suspended if the companies had not agreed to cooperate. The shipment, which included 35 million bushels of wheat and 19 million bushels of corn, was stopped by a hold order directed by President Ford. Dr. Butz said the President’s action was meant to avoid export controls and keep world markets open through voluntary cooperation.
Cable television should be allowed to grow in a free market without unnecessary restrictions, the Justice Department advised the Federal Communications Commission. The department’s antitrust division presented a 14-page legal brief suggesting that the FCC lift present restrictions on cable TV and adopt no new regulations for five years. Federal restrictions have deprived the public of diversity in programming, the brief said.
Negotiations with the Soviet Union for a compromise that could allow at least 60,000 Soviet Jews and others to emigrate yearly in return for American trade concessions have run into problems that may block the agreement. In Washington, reliable sources said the compromise appears to have broken down because the White House declined to give written assurances to Congress that it believed details of the agreement would be carried out by the Russians. A State Department spokesman said the Soviet Union had never given assurances that a specific number of persons could emigrate.
The Navy, which took a calculated risk in reducing the size of its fleet to obtain funds for modernization, now finds itself running short of money for construction of new warships. Largely because of unanticipated inflation, the Navy asserts it is $2‐billion short of funds to complete warships authorized by Congress in the last three years. Looking to the future, the Navy finds the shipbuilding budget must double in the coming year — from $3‐billion to $6‐billion — if it is going to offset the funds shortage in approved programs as well as continue planned new construction. Even in their more optimistic moments, top Navy officials are not certain that either the White House or Congress will approve such a dramatic increase in a shipbuilding budget that already accounts for one‐fifth of the Defense Department’s weapons procurement budget. But the alternative, as they see it, is a slowdown in ship construction with a resulting relative decline in American naval power.
A fuel stamp program for the elderly will be offered in the House by Rep. Peter N. Kyros (D-Maine). Kyros said he would propose that each household with an annual income below $6,500 and at least one member over 60 years old receive $25 in fuel stamps each month. He said soaring utility and fuel prices had had “a devastating effect” on the budgets of many elderly persons.
A shortage of castings is keeping Chrysler Corp. from producing tanks fast enough to satisfy the Pentagon, the Detroit Free Press reported. The company has been producing 30 M-60 medium tanks a month at Warren, Michigan, but the Pentagon asked that production be increased after it sold Israel about 1,000 tanks last fall.
A special investigation committee Tuesday will tour a Nevada atomic test site proposed as a central dump for the nation’s nuclear wastes. Governor Mike O’Callaghan assigned the 18-member committee to study an Atomic Energy Commission proposal to erect above-ground concrete storage mausoleums for wastes at the site. Two other dump sites in Washington state and Idaho are under consideration, according to an AEC official. He said if Nevada officials and residents objected to the proposed dump, the AEC would withdraw the plans even through the site is on government land. The proposal calls for shipping radioactive waste to the dump in special containers by rail or truck.
Senator Edward F. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) said he would open hearings Monday on a plan to lease 10 million acres of offshore land along the Atlantic Coast for oil and gas development. Undersecretary of the Interior John C. Whitaker said Friday he had ordered a plan drawn up for the leasing, but other Interior Department officials said the order was merely a part of advanced planning.
Japanese sensitivity about a growing controversy over the strip-mining of Western grazing lands for coal appears to have wrecked an agreement for the export of millions of tons a year. The Mitsui Mining Company and the Tokai Shipping Company, which have been conducting quiet negotiations to purchase the Montana coal, have broken off negotiations.
With the closing of Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant on Broadway, near 49th Street, the Times Square area of Manhattan is losing a landmark that over the years became a prime tourist attraction. The decision to close the famous eating place was made by the former heavyweight boxing champion after the building’s landlord demanded a lease raising the annual rental to $100,000 from $65,000. Mr. Dempsey said he was “heartbroken” by the shutdown.
The Baltimore Orioles beat the Oakland A’s 6–3 in the American League Championship Series opener as Paul Blair, Bobby Grich, and Brooks Robinson blast homers. The Birds jumped all over the ace of the Oakland staff, Catfish Hunter, pounding him for six runs and eight hits, including three homers in less than five innings. Hunter had a skein of seven straight decisions over the Birds going into the game. Southpaw Mike Cuellar pitched steady ball for the winners and got the decision with relief help in the ninth inning from Ross Grimsley. A portent of things to happen came in the first inning when Paul Blair, second man in the batting order, hit a Hunter pitch for a home run. Bert Campaneris’ single that followed a fielder’s choice and a stolen base by Bill North gave the A’s a temporary tie in the third inning. But a double by Bobby Grich and Tommy Davis’ single put the Orioles ahead to stay in the fourth. A four-run outburst in the fifth, featuring homers by Brooks Robinson and Bobby Grich, locked up the game and sent Hunter to the showers. When Cuellar yielded a single to Jesús Alou and a double to Claudell Washington, both pinch-hitters, to open the last of the ninth, he was pulled in favor of Grimsley, who got the last three outs without trouble.
Don Sutton notches a 4-hit shutout to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 3–0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League Championship Series opener. The Dodgers had been winless in six games played at Pittsburgh during the regular season but they remedied that situation in postseason play. In the opening game, Don Sutton of the Dodgers was opposed by Jerry Reuss. The Pirate lefty yielded just one run in seven innings (on a bases-loaded walk to Davey Lopes in the second), but left the game in favor of an ineffectual pinch-hitter. Dave Giusti came on in the eighth inning and gave up two insurance runs in the ninth on Jim Wynn’s RBI double with one on, followed by Joe Ferguson’s RBI single. Meanwhile, Sutton set the Pittsburgh club down on four hits and no runs.
Born:
Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists), in Helena, Montana.
Douglas Emerson, American actor (Robbie-“Herbie the Love Bug”), in Glendale, California.
Heather Headley, Trinidadian-American Tony Award-winning actress (“Aida”), and Grammy Award-winning singer (“Audience of One”), in Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago.
Rich Franklin, American mixed martial artist (UFC Middleweight title 2005-06), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Christian Core, Italian professional rock climber; in Savona, Italy.
Died:
Zalman Shazar (born Shneur Zalman Rubashov), 84, President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.
Miguel Enríquez, 30, Chilean physician, general secretary of the Revolutionary Left Movement, was killed by security forces during a 2-hour gun battle in a suburb of Santiago.
Robert G. Robinson, 78, United States Marine Corps first lieutenant, World War I Medal of Honor recipient.
Ebe Stignani, 71, Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer.
Virgil Miller, 87, American cinematographer on 157 films.
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