U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger, in an interview with the New York Times, said he believed the nations of the world were now “delicately poised” on the verge of a new historic era. Mr. Kissinger called for a “visible and dramatic downturn in the arms race” and a new spirit of interdependence in order to avoid uncontrollable political, economic and social chaos. “If we do not get a recognition of our interdependence,” he said, “the Western civilization that we know is almost certain to disintegrate, because it will first lead to a series of rivalries in which each region will try to maximize its own special advantages. That inevitably will lead to tests of strength of one sort or another. These will magnify domestic crises in many countries and they will then move more and more to authoritarian models. I would expect then that we will certainly have cri ses which no leadership is able to deal with, and probably military confrontations.”
The U.N. General Assembly has elected Sweden, Italy, Guyana, Tanzania and Japan to two-year terms as nonpermanent members of the Security Council beginning January 1. The composition of the 15-nation council next year will be Britain, Byelorussia, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, France, Guyana, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Mauritania, Tanzania, Sweden, the Soviet Union and the United States. The General Assembly also granted observer status to both the European Common Market and the Communist bloc’s trade community, Comecon.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who slipped back into office with a narrow two-man parliamentary majority in Thursday’s election, retired to his country residence to draft a speech dealing with Britain’s economic crisis. Government officials said the speech will be broadcast nationwide Monday night and that Wilson plans the following day to call his cabinet into its first meeting since the Labor Party was returned to power with 39.3% of the popular vote. Wilson has won a majority in Parliament, but he has made clear that he believes it is enough for him to push through several measures that were stalled in the previous House. In a speech to party workers after final returns gave Labor 319 seats of the 635 seats at stake in last week’s election, Mr. Wilson set this agenda: renegotiation of British membership in the European Common Market; nationalization of key industries, including oil; continuation of his voluntary wage‐restraint program, and taxing the rich “until the pips squeak.”
Mr. Wilson’s fourth victory in five elections as Labor leader clearly elated him, but sober tasks lie ahead. The inflation rate is running at almost 17 per cent. The trade deficit reported for September was $900‐million. And he must deal with Britain’s powerful and militant labor unions, with whom he has said he has a “social contract.” Although the unions will be far from docile under Mr. Wilson, the belief that they would have been forced into a “confrontation” with a Tory Government was credited as one reason for Mr. Wilson’s victory. Mr. Wilson must introduce a new budget and other measures to curb rising unemployment, to induce increased industrial investment, a difficult task.
Tina Niarchos, wife of Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos, died of acute edema, or congestion, of the lungs, according to official sources in Paris. But the sources said an autopsy did not show what caused the edema and further study would be necessary to determine the exact cause of death. It had been tentatively reported that a blood clot had brought on a heart attack. A spokesman said a heart attack or an overdose of sleeping pills could have caused the edema. Niarchos’ former wife died of an overdose of sleeping pills. Mrs. Niarchos, 45, was found dead in her bedroom by a chamber maid Thursday morning.
While the Western nations have been struggling against the impact of higher oil prices, the Soviet Union has welcomed recent price increases by the cartel of producing countries for both economic and political reasons. As a significant oil exporter, the Soviet Union has been receiving substantially higher oil revenues to help pay for much-needed imports of advanced Western technology and the increased intake of foreign currency reduces Moscow’s need for credits.
The wife of Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei D. Sakharov urgently needs medical care for her eyes but has not received telegraphed invitations that could enable her to come to Italy for treatment, a Milan newspaper reported. Il Giornale said several telegrams from Italian doctors, sent in September, had cleared the Italian post office but there was no information on what happened to them in the Soviet Union.
Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi grudgingly settled for another draw after 80 moves of a marathon game in his world chess challengers final with Anatoly Karpov in Moscow. Korchnoi, already down 0-2 in the match, tried desperately for a victory in the continuation of the 11th game, which turned out to be the longest of the series so far. But he could not budge the younger Karpov’s stubborn defense in the rook-and-pawns end game in which Karpov is an expert.
Following a talk with King Hussein, Secretary of State Kissinger assured Jordan that the United States would press for a role for that country in any Middle Eastern peace negotiations. Mr. Kissinger flew to Israel on the fourth leg of his Middle East trip after his meeting with the Jordanian monarch. In a brief statement at Aqaba, following a meeting with King Hussein, Mr. Kissinger reaffirmed that the United States wanted to bring about talks not only between Egypt and Israel but between Jordan and Israel as well.
Upon arriving at Ben‐Gurion Airport, Mr. Kissinger said in an address to the Israeli nation that despite apprehension expressed in the press he was confident that the forthcoming round of Arab‐Israeli negotiations would benefit all the people of the Middle East, “above all the people of Israel, who have suffered more than anybody by the absence of peace.” Tonight, about 8,000 demonstrators, mostly from the right‐wing religious parties, opposed to any return of WestBank land to the Jordanians, chanted anti‐Kissinger slogans outside Mr. Rabin’s office. Mr. Kissinger, however, was not there, and many of the demonstrators then marched to Mr. Rabin’s residence, where working dinner was taking place. There were some scuffles with policemen and reports of some arrests. About 200 of the demonstrators then made their way to the streets near the King David Hotel in the center of Jerusalem, where Mr. Kissinger and his party are staying. Throughout the night they sang Hebrew songs and waved placards, containing such slogans as “Burn Oil, Not Jews.” There was no violence.
Egypt refuses to make any political concessions in exchange for new partial withdrawal of Israeli forces in the Sinai, well-informed Egyptian sources said today. They added that Egypt would insist that any agreement on such a withdrawal be cast in the form of a simple extension of the military disengagement agreements concluded last January and not the form of an interim political agreement, as the Israelis reportedly suggest. President Anwar el‐Sadat made this position known to Secretary of State Kissinger at their meeting Thursday night, the sources said.
A Communist spokesman said today that the Việt Cộng would refuse to negotiate on peace enforcement or missing Americans until the South Vietnamese President, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, was overthrown. The Việt Cộng “is prepared to engage in talks with an administration in Saigon that espouses peace,” Colonel Võ Đông Giang, a senior Việt Cộng official, said at a news conference here. He also demanded an end of United States military aid to Saigon. “The present American Government headed by Gerald Ford continues to be bellicose and obstinate,” he said, adding “The Nguyễn Văn Thiệu administration, on United States orders, has sabotaged the Paris agreements and created a deadlock to all avenues of negotiation. Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and his gang must be overthrown and a new administration formed.”
Japan teetered on the brink of a political explosion today as an official statement from Washington failed to quell suspicions and charges that the United States had brought nuclear weapons into this nuclearsensitive country. The statement was delivered Friday to the Japanese Ambassador, Takeshi Yasukawa, by Robert S. Ingersoll, acting Secretary of State in the absence of Secretary Kissinger from Washington. It did not deny that American nuclear arms had come into Japan, but stuck closely to a legalistic reaffirmation that the United States with Japan. Japanese officials greeted the statement cautiously, saying that it was the “maximum” Japan could get since the United States never confirmed or denied the presence of nuclear arms anywhere. But the leftist opposition parties pledged to make a major issue out of it in Parliament next week.
A U.S. Air Force Lockheed WC-130H weather reconnaissance airplane Swan 38, carrying a crew of six, disappeared after departing Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. The crew had been sent to investigate Typhoon Bess and was over the South China Sea between Hong Kong and Taiwan when it went down.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos directed the government to prepare an amnesty proclamation for all members of the outlawed Communist Party, a move apparently aimed at helping pave the way for diplomatic relations with China.
At time when most governments at every level are struggling hard to stay solvent, Alberta, which produces 83 percent of Canada’s oil, has more money than it knows what to do with. Because of recent increases in the price of oil, Alberta, which has fewer people than the borough of Queens, is now accumulating extra royalties at the rate of nearly $1‐billion a year. The province’s Premier, Peter Lougheed, is appealing to Albertans for suggestions about how to spend the money, most of which comes ultimately from consumers in the United States.
One of the three Angolan liberation movements announced a ceasefire as of midnight Monday in its guerrilla war against Portugal. Holden Roberto, leader of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, said in Kinshasa, Zaire, that his troops would fire only if fired on.
“All options are open” for the disputed territory of South‐West Africa, according to the Foreign Minister of South Africa. “South‐West Africa may enter a confederation with us or may become federated with us,” Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller said in an interview in New York this week. He added: “If we are honest, we must accept full independence should the people of South‐West Africa so decide in the exercise of their right to self‐determination.”
Saying that the work of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force was largely finished, the special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, has announced he will resign as of October 25. The announcement came as a surprise in Washington, although it had been known for some time that Mr. Jaworski was eager to return to his home in Texas. In his letter of resignation to Attorney General William Saxbe, Mr. Jaworski noted that the Watergate cover-up trial, probably the prosecution’s last major undertaking, was now in progress with an associate special prosecutor, James Neal, in charge.
The list of gifts released by Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller does not, according to a congressional source, give a full picture of “the Rockefeller interests and how they prosper” in part through the use of loans or gifts. The list, showing gifts of close to $2 million, was released publicly after reports of Mr. Rockefeller’s generosity to state officials had appeared in a number of newspapers.
President Ford’s rating in the Gallup Poll has dropped 21 points since he look office Aug. 9. This is the sharpest decline recorded in such a short time for any President since the poll started measuring presidential popularity 35 years ago. The latest survey, taken between September 27 and 30, was after the President’s pardon of former President Nixon on September 8 and before he presented his economic program to Congress last week.
The National Council of Churches, a federation of more than 30 major Protestant., and Eastern Orthodox denominations, said yesterday that President Ford’s “earned re‐entry” program for war resisters “falls far short” of “healing the wounds” of the Vietnam war. Mr. Ford’s program calls for a maximum of two years of alternate service for unconvicted draft resisters and deserters, the granting of a “clemency” discharge to deserters upon completion of their alternate service, and a case‐by‐case review of those deserters and draft resisters convicted under military or civilian law. The council praised the “courage” of the President in raising the amnesty issue, but characterized his program as offering war resisters “little more redress than was already available.”
Despite assurances by President Ford’s counsel that all Nixon administration papers would remain intact at the White House, at least one such carton was removed inadvertently on September 26. The carton was mistakenly included in a shipment of 13 boxes of personal papers of General Alexander Haig the day before he left the White House as chief of staff. When the mistake was discovered the box was returned, with seals still intact, to the White House.
Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller has said he takes “full responsibility” for publication of a derogatory biography of Arthur Goldberg published during the 1970 campaign when Mr. Goldberg was the Democratic candidate for Governor opposing Mr. Rockefeller. The former Governor’s press secretary, Hugh Morrow, said Mr. Rockefeller had acknowledged he had prior knowledge of the project and admitted he should have taken steps to see that it was stopped.
The murder of Arlis Perry, a 19-year-old newlywed, took place in a church on the campus of Stanford University in California. While the campus security guard who discovered the body was a suspect, evidence confirming his involvement would not be discovered until 2018, more than 43 years after Perry’s death. Stephen Blake Crawford would commit suicide before he could be arrested.
A woman balloonist was killed and four other persons were injured as brisk winds blew eight hot air balloons out of control on flights from Wisconsin into Illinois. Edith Coppage, 36, of Wood Dale, Illinois., was killed when a gust of wind blew her gondola into a tree near Harvard, Illinois. Robert Spitz, Park Forest, Illinois., and Roberta Cornell, Glen Ellyn, Illinois., were hospitalized after a similar accident. An unidentified couple fell about 50 feet to the ground from a gondola but were not seriously injured. The balloons were in a “Hot Air Brigade” that took off from a resort at Fontana, Wisconsin.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to restore an injunction prohibiting the Reserve Mining Company from discharging allegedly hazardous wastes into Lake Superior and into the air. The company has been accused of creating a health hazard in Minnesota and other states by its daily discharge of 67,000 tons of suspended solid waste into the lake and 100 tons of other substances, allegedly including asbestos, into the air. Four of the Justices said in the opinion, released last night, that litigants, including the state of Minnesota and the Justice Department, could renew their appeal to stop the dumping if a lower court decision is not reached by next January 31. But Justice William O. Douglas said that the high court should have cut off the dumping immediately, and that the company should not be allowed to continue “maximizing profits” in a case where public health might be at stake.
The resignation of the Rev. John J. McLaughlin as a White House aide was ordered by his Jesuit superior, the Rev. Richard Cleary, a Jesuit newspaper reported. SJ News, a publication of the Society of Jesus of New England, quoted Father McLaughlin as saying, “I cannot deny that your report is accurate. The action was unilateral, involving Jesuit policy reasons.” But the priest, whose resignation becomes effective Tuesday, said his main reason for leaving was that he felt the new President should have new staff. Father McLaughlin had been an adviser to Richard M. Nixon and stayed on when Mr. Nixon was succeeded by Gerald R. Ford.
The nation is in a serious recession, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Arkansas) said in a statement issued through his Washington office. He promised to work for a sound tax program and repeated his opposition to President Ford’s proposed 5% income tax surcharge. The Arkansas Gazette, the largest newspaper in his district, criticized Mills for his absence from congressional duties since a run-in with police early Monday, involving a woman identified as a former stripper. The paper said that the “personal difficulties or indiscretions” of Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, should not interfere with his public duties.
“Mr. Sunday School” was killed in what apparently was a holdup attempt within feet of his Chicago office, police reported. Dr. Clate A. Risley, 58, of Oak Park, Illinois, director of the Worldwide Christian Education Ministries, had been given the “Mr. Sunday School” title by his association’s newsletter, which called him “probably the most traveled man in Christian education circles in the world.” Police found $32 in Mr. Risley’s wallet but said that from all indications he had been killed in an attempted robbery. He was shot once in the chest. There were no suspects, police said.
Dr. Kenneth Underwood, superintendent of the Kanawha County, West Virginia, school system, which has been in turmoil over a textbook controversy since September 2, has resigned effective as soon as a replacement can be found. He said he was quitting because of the appointment of a new school board member, F. Douglas Stump, who, Underwood said, “vacillates and lies.” Underwood termed citizens’ cries of “ban the books” as “Naziism.” Meantime, an explosion destroyed a car belonging to Mrs. Loraine Atkinson, one of three women arrested last week on charges of interfering with school bus runs. No one was hurt in the blast. A gasoline fire bomb hurled against an elementary school caused minor smoke and fire damage. John Clay, head custodian at another school, was hospitalized after he was struck by a chair as he made his morning rounds.
The 1974 Giro di Lombardia, the premier bicycling race of Italy, was won by Roger De Vlaeminck of Belgium, who finished the 266-kilometre (165 mi) race from Milan to Como in 7 hours, 7.54 seconds.
The NHL Washington Capitals suffer their first franchise shutout, losing 6-0 to the Minnesota North Stars.
Sadaharu Oh draws his 166th walk in a 130-game season, setting a Japanese record. At his retirement in 1980, Oh will hold the all-time world record for walks, 2,504, topping Babe Ruth’s record of 2,056.
The Oakland A’s win the 1974 World Series opener 3–2 as the Los Angeles Dodgers strand 12 base runners. Reggie Jackson put the A’s on the board first with a homer in the top of the second off 20-game winner Andy Messersmith. The A’s added another run in the fifth when starting pitcher Ken Holtzman, batting for the first time all season because of the designated hitter rule, doubled to left, went to third on a Messersmith wild pitch, and scored on a Bert Campaneris suicide squeeze bunt. The Dodgers crept back with a run in their half of the fifth when Davey Lopes reached first on an error by Campaneris. Bill Buckner then bounced a single to right that Jackson misplayed, allowing Lopes to score. The A’s scored their final run in the eighth when Campaneris singled to shallow center, was sacrificed to second by Bill North, and scored when Dodger third baseman Ron Cey threw wildly to first on a grounder hit by Sal Bando. Bando reached third on the error, and attempted to score on a flyout to right by Jackson, but right fielder Joe Ferguson gunned him down at the plate. In the bottom of the ninth, with Rollie Fingers on the mound, Jimmy Wynn hit a homer that just escaped the reach of Joe Rudi and North in left center. Following a single by Steve Garvey, Catfish Hunter relieved Fingers and made the final out by striking out Ferguson. Fingers got the win with 4⅓ innings of relief, having relieved Holtzman in the fifth inning.
Born:
Marie Wilson [as Marie Flevaras], Canadian actress (“As the World Turns”, “General Hospital”), in Athens, Greece.
Shane McAnally, American country music singer-songwriter; in Mineral Wells, Texas.
Jung Sun-Min, South Korean WNBA center (Seattle Storm), in Kinan, South Korea.
Died:
Joseph Frederick Wagner, 74, American composer, conductor (Boston Civic Symphony, 1925 to 44), and teacher.
Josef Krips, 72, Austrian conductor and violinist, died of lung cancer.
Wolfgang Stechow, 78, German-American art historian.
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