[Ed: The man made some idiotic and frankly, anti-Semitic comments about Jews and Israel controlling America. Ford reprimanded him; Brown was lucky he was not asked to resign.]
Britain’s governing Labor party has won the general election. With more than three-quarters of the votes counted, Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s party took seat after seat from the Conservatives and was assured of a working majority in the House of Commons. Computers had predicted a five-vote majority. Elections were held for all 635 seats of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Labour Party increased its share to a 319 to 277 majority over the Conservative Party of former Prime Minister Edward Heath, after having a 301 to 297 plurality. The conservative Tories lost 20 seats. The Liberal Party lost one of its 14 seats and finished in third place.
U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff army General George Brown’s deplores Jewish influence in U.S. security policy during question and answers after speech at Duke University. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, said he was “not confident” that the Pentagon could cope with severe losses in buying power resulting from inflation and congressional budget cuts “without some very significant program changes.” Brown said the quickest way to save is “to get people off the payroll,” adding that he meant both military and civilian personnel.
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin.
The vice chairman of the Soviet State Planning Committee, Nikolai Inozemtsev, said plans were being drawn up for the Soviet economy that envisaged expanded cooperation with the United States. In an interview with a Tass correspondent, Inozemtsev said that in particular the vast untouched reserves of power in Siberia, especially coal and gas, offered wide prospects for joint power-consumption projects.
Soviet chess players Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov agreed to a draw on the 59th move of the 10th game in their current series to decide a challenger to world titleholder Bobby Fischer. It was the eighth draw since the match began in Moscow September 16. Karpov won the two games which did not end in a draw.
Italian President Giovanni Leone named Senate leader Giovanni Spagnolli to a special fact-finding post to explore the chances of patching up a government coalition to solve the country’s political crisis. Leone’s decision came after four days of consultations with political leaders on Italy’s worst government crisis since the fall of Benito Mussolini 31 years ago.
Israeli Army units, using helicopters, observation planes and command cars, searched ravines and dry river beds between Jerusalem and Jericho today, rounding up several hundred young Israelis who last night renewed attempts to establish unauthorized settlements in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. The confrontation between the Government and the wouldbe settlers continued into the second day after new groups of Israelis managed to elude army roadblocks last night and penetrate the West Bank, which was conquered from Jordan in the 1967 war. The entire area was closed to civilian traffic for the day. More than 100 would‐be settlers were holding out tonight in caves near a spring at the bottom of Wadi Kelt, a deep rift that runs down to Jericho. Their food supplies were low but not their spirits. The settlers, mostly young members of the right‐wing National Religious party, spent the early evening singing and dancing the hora around campfires.
Greek Catholic Archbishop Hilarion Capucci testified at his arms smuggling trial that an Israeli secret agent had used threats of death and promises of freedom to get an incriminating statement from him. Defense counsel Aziz Shehadeh claimed the agent’s name was Ibrahim Sarur. Later, the state attorney told the Jerusalem District Court that a secret service agent did use the cover name of Ibrahim Sarur. The agent will testify today.
Secretary of State Kissinger said tonight that after five hours of talks with President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt he was “encouraged” by progress made toward reaching a formula for the next round of Arab‐Israeli negotiations. Speaking shortly before midnight, Mr. Kissinger declined to provide any details on the discussions, which centered on finding a consensus for the next stage of negotiations. He added that he could not divulge the details of his talks with Mr. Sadat until he had had a chance to meet leaders in Syria, Jordan and Israel in coming days. Mr. Sadat likewise refused to go into more than generalities, but said that “we have the best relations together.”
Four Americans, two Britons and 12 Egyptians were lost in the sinking of one of its oil rigs in the Gulf of Suez, Offshore Inc. of Houston reported in Cairo. The accident occurred Tuesday. The rig, set up to drill in a new field at Ras Shukair, was leased to Gupco, the Gulf of Suez Petroleum Co., a joint venture of the Egyptian government and Amoco, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana.
Iran charged today that mismanagement of the economy and overconsumption in the United States and Europe, not the rise in oil prices, had triggered the current inflationary crises. Speaking in the General Assembly, Foreign Minister Abbas All Khalatbari of Iran insisted that the higher oil prices had had little inflationary impact. The higher costs for imported oil accounted for as little as 0.45 per cent of the rate of inflation in the United States and only 1.5 per cent of the rate in Western Europe, he said. By contrast, he insisted that in the same period prices generally had risen an average of 12 per cent in the United States and Western Europe. “Disorder in the world economy and money market preceded the oil price rise and was mainly due to mismanagement of the economy in European as excessive consumption in the more advanced countries,” the Iranian Minister maintained.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi carried out a major cabinet shuffle, entrusting the Foreign Ministry to Y.B. Chavan, a middle-of-the-road political lieutenant who has been finance minister since 1970. Swaran Singh, foreign minister for the last four years, took over the defense post. Mrs. Gandhi also picked the petroleum minister, D.K. Barooah, to be the new president of the ruling Congress Party. He replaces Shankar Dayal Sharma, a leftist politician who orchestrated a propaganda campaign against the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1972-73. In perhaps the most significant change, 66‐year‐old Jagjivan Ram, a tough, politically powerful figure who has served as Defense Minister since 1970, was named Agricultural Minister. Mr. Ram, who was born as an untouchable and has a following among these outcasts of Hindu society, was reportedly reluctant to take the agriculture post. But he was said to have relented after Mrs. Gandhi’s repeated pleas that food and argricultural production were crucial and fearsome problems facing India.
The people who survived months of floods in Bangladesh are now facing starvation. According to final official estimates, more than half of the country was inundated by floods affecting 35 million people, or nearly half the population. During the worst flooding in August at least 2,000 people were killed, but officials say that they do not have reports of all deaths from distant villages. What is worrying the nation now is the specter of famine and large numbers of deaths from starvation. Although the flood water has receded from the stricken villages and towns, the bulk of the arable land remains submerged and unfit for new sowing. Even if planting can be done in the next few weeks, harvesting will not take place before the end of December. Until then 15 million people, mostly peasants who have lost their homes, food and jobs because of the floods, will have to be looked after.
Several demonstrators and three American newsmen were attacked by Saigon policemen today as anti‐Government street protests continued to gain momentum. One Buddhist nun was knocked unconscious by a man who, demonstrators contended, was a plainclothes policeman. A correspondent for CBS, Haney Howell, was hospitalized with possibly serious injuries after a plainclothes man delivered a karate kick to his abdomen. These larger anti‐Government movements, protesting official corruption and the frequent confiscation of newspapers, have been led by anti‐Communist Roman Catholics who once formed an important element of President Thiệu’s support. Their protests are being taken seriously, especially by opponents of the Thiệu administration who were extremely gloomy only a few weeks ago about the prospects for change in government.
A number of sophisticated politicians are convinced that Mr. Thiệu will be ousted, one way or another. He has handled the protests shrewdly, however, giving the demonstrators their head, responding in conciliatory tones to some of their complaints and allowing newspapers to report more fully on the protests than in the past. Nevertheless, the Vietnamese version of press censorship — in which policemen confiscate offensive issues, thereby costing publishers large sums in lost revenue — was the main target of today’s demonstrations. It was the second time in 10 days that Mr. Howell has been assaulted by policemen during a demonstration. Passersby were more openly supportive of the protesters than Saigonese have been in the past. There were shouts of, “Long Live the Press!” from the crowds on the sidewalks. Many joined the march, causing a tremendous traffic jam in downtown Saigon.
Canadian bicyclist John Hathaway begins 2-year ride of 50,600 miles.
Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo doffed their territorial status to become Mexico’s 30th and 31st states. The northern half of Baja California had become a state in 1952. Officials say tourist visits to the southern half have increased substantially since completion of the trans-peninsular highway. Quintana Roo, a tropical Caribbean state, is a major tourist area in the southern Yucatan Peninsula.
Congress has approved and sent to the White House legislation providing for the most extensive reform of federal campaign finance practices in American history. The bill, which is expected to be signed by President Ford, was an outgrowth of the Watergate scandal and was designed to limit the political influence of special interest groups and wealthy individuals.
The House Judiciary Committee has begun a broad investigation of the extent of Nelson Rockefeller’s possible involvement in a derogatory campaign biography of Arthur Goldberg, his Democratic gubernatorial opponent in 1970. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has indicated that Mr. Rockefeller, through intermediaries, may have been involved in underwriting Victor Lasky’s biography on Mr. Goldberg. Mr. Rockefeller said that, without his knowledge, his brother Laurence had invested $60,000 in the book “as a business venture.”
The Senate has passed legislation which would outlaw credit discrimination based on sex or marital status. The House took similar action on Wednesday. The anti-discrimination provision is an amendment to a federal deposit insurance bill and applies to all types of personal and business credit.
Boston’s Mayor, Kevin White, lashed out at President Ford because of an anti-busing statement, saying that Mr. Ford had “fanned the flames of resistance” to school integration and possibly contributed to the endangerment of Boston’s school children. Mayor White told a news conference that he would continue to enforce the law but would not voluntarily implement a second phase of school busing for integration without federal support.
The mood on Wall Street ranged from jubilant to bewildered as stock prices surged for the second consecutive day, completing one of the largest two-day advances in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. With some 26.36 million shares traded, the exchange experienced the fifth busiest day in its 182-year history.
For the first month in almost a year, wholesale prices remained almost unchanged in September. The rise, only one-tenth of 1 percent, as announced by the Labor Department, resulted from the interaction of a decline in food prices, coupled with some continued rise in prices of industrial commodities. Offsetting this good news was a report from the Agriculture Department showing a reduction in the outlook for corn and soybean production, caused by a summer drought and an early fall frost.
Dr. William Ronan says there was nothing “immoral or illegal” in his acceptance of a gift of $550,000 from Nelson Rockefeller. The amount, originally a loan, given over a 17-year period, could have been paid back, Dr. Ronan said, because his net worth is more than enough to do so. The Vice President-designate was reported to be upset and depressed over the potential effect the disclosures of the gifts might have on his confirmation by the Senate.
Residents were warned to avoid contact with potentially explosive glass vials of a toxic chemical which have washed up on a 180-mile stretch of north Florida beaches. Exposure to the carbon disulfate contained in the vials can cause third-degree burns or death, officials said. No injuries have yet been reported but officials warned that the capsules could even explode “like little bombs” if exposed to heat or improperly handled. “It’s about one-third the equivalent of nitroglycerine,” said a sheriff’s deputy. About 50 of the vials have already been destroyed. Officials are trying to trace the ship that might have dumped the chemical into the sea.
The president of the Kanawha County, West Virginia, Board of Education resigned after more than a month of controversy over use of certain textbooks. Albert Anson quit at a board meeting, saying he still believed there was nothing wrong with the books which have led to demonstrations, scattered violence, school boycotts, work shutdowns and arrests in the county and city of Charleston since school began September 3. Officials said attendance at the 44,800-pupil county schools was 79%, with no reports of violence. Sheriff’s deputies accompanied school buses, which traveled in pairs. Protesters also apparently were observing a court injunction against picketing coal mines and at least partial crews were on the job.
New Jersey’s Attorney General, William Hyland, revealed that his office was investigating the possible embezzlement of funds in the 1969 campaign of former Governor William Cahill. Mr. Hyland’s remarks were the first reference to possible theft of money from the campaign.
The Senate passed 77 to 0 an emergency housing bill under which $7.75 billion in government funds could be pumped into the home mortgage market. It also contains an amendment setting a lower interest rate than the Ford Administration wanted. The bill’s chief sponsors, Senators Alan Cranston (D-California) and Edward W. Brooke (R-Massachusetts), told the Senate that if the low-interest amendment of Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) were adopted, President Ford would veto the bill. The bill now goes to the house. The measure was the first of the economic proposals Mr. Ford made to a joint session of Congress Tuesday to be brought up for floor action. Sponsors hope for House passage today.
The Justice Department has offered to continue representing former President Richard M. Nixon and his three closest advisers in civil suits pending against them, department officials acknowledged. The offer was made in letters to attorneys for Mr. Nixon, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former presidential advisers H. R.. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, according to Kevin Maroney of the department’s criminal division. Maroney’s boss, Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, sent the letters about two weeks ago. The offer was not discussed with President Ford, he said. Maroney said plaintiffs in the five suits were actress Jane Fonda, the Socialist Workers Party and former administration officials who were wiretapped during the Nixon years.
It may be hard to believe, but Richard M. Nixon was still being taped on his last day in office. Senator Barry Goldwater said the former President propped his feet on his desk in the White House and reminisced with other Republican congressional leaders as the hours waned. The Arizonan said he recorded those last remarks but the tapes and diaries would be sealed until his death because the recollections contain personally sensitive references. They all talked about past campaigns and Mr. Nixon was in good spirits, he said. Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominée, said that at one point the thought flashed through his mind, “My God. That could have been me.” And he said later he tried to visit Mr. Nixon in San Clemente but an aide asked him not to, saying the former President “just wanted to walk.”
Speaking at a Packaging Education Foundation banquet in Chicago, Robert H. Abplanalp, whose company makes most of the nation’s aerosol can valves, said that “extremists in the areas of ecology and consumer protection are today waging a more effective war on American industry than the most capable host of enemy saboteurs.” Abplanalp also defended his close friend, former President Richard M. Nixon. “I’ll tell you that the most rigorously observed basic of my friendship with President Nixon was that he didn’t dabble in my business and I didn’t meddle in his,” he said.
American “Bewitched” actress Elizabeth Montgomery (41) divorces American “Bewitched” director-producer William Asher (53) after 11 years of marriage.
Former Oakland second baseman Mike Andrews files a $2.5 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley over his treatment during the 1973 World Series.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 648.08 (+17.06, +2.70%).
Born:
Dale Earnhardt Jr. American race car driver (NASCAR Hall of Fame, 2021; Daytona 500, 2004, 2014; Busch Series, 1998, 1999); in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Chris Pronger, Canadian National Team and NHL defenceman (Hockey Hall of Fame, inducted 2015; Olympic gold medal, 2002, 2010; Olympics, 1998 (4th), 2006 (7th); NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Ducks, 2007; Hart Memorial Trophy, MVP, 2000; NHL All Star, 1999-2002, 2004, 2008; Hartford Whalers, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks, Philadelphia Flyers) in Dryden, Ontario, Canada.
Luther Hackman, MLB pitcher (Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres), in Columbus, Mississippi.
Cory Gilliard, NFL defensive back (Cincinnati Bengals), in the Bronx, New York, New York.
Oded Kattash, Israeli basketball player who was FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer in 1997 and Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP in 1998, later Israeli League Coach of the Year in 2007; in Givatayim, Israel.
Naike Rivelli, German model and daughter of Ornella Muti, in Munich, West Germany.
Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor, in Ashdod, Israel.
Died:
Tina Onassis Niarchos (born Athina Mary Livanos), 45, English-born Greek-French socialite and shipping heiress, wife of Stavros Niarchos, ex-wife of Aristotle Onassis and John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, of a pulmonary edema.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, 58, Ukrainian World War II Soviet Red Army sniper with 309 confirmed kills, of a stroke.
Alfred Irving Hallowell, 81, American anthropologist.
Joseph Wulf, 61, German-Polish Jewish historian and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, jumped to his death from the fifth-floor window of his apartment in Charlottenburg, West Berlin.
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