Greek and Turkish Cypriot prisoners of war will be exchanged in Nicosia Friday, a U.N. spokesman said. There was no information on the number to be exchanged but it was expected they would include some Greek Cypriots who had been taken to Turkey following the invasion. Several hundred prisoners have already been exchanged but families on both sides are seeking news of thousands of persons still missing.
With his narrow election victory behind him, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson turned today to the task of finding broad support for his Government’s efforts to deal with the nation’s economic crisis. In a televised speech appealing for national unity, Mr. Wilson, whose Labor party received only 39 percent of the popular vote last Thursday, set himself to reassure those who fear a radical program of socialization in the next few years. “Inevitably an election and the atmosphere which precedes it divides the country for as long as it lasts,” he said. “But one thing stands out from this turbulent election through which we have just passed. All of us, all parties, all commentators were agreed on one thing that Britain is facing the gravest crisis since the war.”
In fighting inflation, Mr. Wilson said, his Government will avoid restrictive measures leadng to unemployment. It will penalize anyone who seeks “to take out of our national income more than he puts into it by his work and effort and skill,” he warned. But he went on to stress his intention to help British industry out of its cash and credit problems. The Government’s pledge to extend public ownership will be carried out in the context of a mixed economy emphasizing “a vigorous, alert, responsible and profitable private sector,” he said. Everything, he promised, will be done only with full parliamentary approval. “There will be no short cuts, no adventures,” he said.
Amintore Fanfani, a staunch anti-Communist Catholic leader, was asked to form a new government to try to bail Italy out of its political and economic crisis. Fanfani, 66, secretary general of the dominant Christian Democratic Party, has been premier four times previously. Premier Mariano Rumor resigned October 3, creating a vacuum that many Italians thought could only be filled by bringing Italy’s Communist Party into the government. Fanfani’s appointment appeared to end this possibility.
U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said in Moscow that he had had cordial discussions with Soviet trade officials about a $500 million U.S. grain sale to the Soviet Union which had been blocked by President Ford. Simon declined to say whether he felt the wheat and corn deal would eventually go through. His talks also touched on the Administration trade reform bill which has been blocked by congressmen seeking an easing of Soviet emigration rules.
French management and labor have agreed to a plan which gives 20 million wage earners in that country the guarantee of a year’s pay if they are laid off as a result of a bad turn in the economic weather. The agreement, which was encouraged by the government of President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, will be financed by a fund to which employers, employees and eventually the government will contribute.
The death of the first of two British commercial divers in the North Sea occurred as John K. J. Clark vomited and drowned after sustaining broken ribs while conducting a nighttime surface dive to monitor another diver off the semi-submersible platform drill rig Waage One in the North Sea. The next day, Gary Shields was asphyxiated after his oxygen umbilical was tangled during a bell dive on the Ekofisk pipeline in the Norwegian Sector.
Secretary of State Kissinger, in the most optimistic public statement since the start of his current Middle East tour, said he saw “indications that we are making progress toward peace in the area.” Mr. Kissinger said he planned to return to the Middle East in the first week of November, following an Arab leadership meeting in Morocco. The statement by the American official came after a meeting with Egypt’s President Sadat.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was recognized by the United Nations General Assembly as the representative of the Palestinian people, and granted the right to participate in the deliberations of the General Assembly on the question of Palestine in plenary meetings. The roll‐call vote was 105 to 4, with 20 abstentions. The dissenting votes were cast by Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Israel and the United States. In a four‐hour debate preceding the vote this afternoon, Israel’s delegate expressed his Government’s bitter opposition to legitimizing the Palestine Liberation Organization in one of the principal organs of the United Nations. Israel said such, a move would encourage international terrorism.
The bodies of 71 persons hailed as martyrs for democracy were ceremoniously cremated in Bangkok as Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit and other dignitaries put torches to the caskets of those killed in student demonstrations a year ago. The bodies had been kept in a temple since the riots. Tens of thousands of spectators and millions of television viewers watched the ceremony, held in Sanam Luang market.
In Tokyo, an explosion on the third floor of Mitsui & Co.’s head office injured 16 people, including five police officers. The police are searching for three suspects in the bombing today of the home office of Mitsui & Co. here. It was the second bombing of a giant business organization in a month and a half. Sixteen persons were injured, two seriously, when the bomb exploded on the third floor of the trading company’s block‐long office building in downtown Tokyo at about 1:15 PM. Most of the workers had been evacuated to a nearby park after the building received the first of four telephone warnings 27 minutes before the blast. Five of the injured were po licemen who were searching for the bomb. One was seriously injured when, according to the police, he started to pick up a brown paper bag next to an elevator. The bag contained the bomb, which exploded.
The telephone callers said they were members of the “Asian continental development organization,” a group not previously known. Police officials said they had no indication of the group’s background or motive, though its name implies a connection to the trading company’s often controversial overseas activities. The police said they had been given descriptions by cab drivers of three male suspects who left the Mitsui building by taxi shortly before the first telephone warning. On August 30, the office building of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Company was ripped by two large bombs that exploded simultaneously, killing eight persons and injuring more than 330. Whether the two bombings are linked is unclear. The two companies are members of the two largest industrial conglomerates in Japan.
Mexican President Luis Echeverria cautioned the nation to wait and see if new petroleum finds in Tabasco and Chiapas states turn out to be extremely rich, as some reports have indicated. Meanwhile, two leftist political parties urged Mexico to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as well as to help establish a separate Latin American cartel to protect the new oil find against U.S. “imperialism.”
A team of American medical missionaries just returned to Florida from hurricane-ravaged Honduras charged that relief supplies are being confiscated by government officials who, according to the American’s interpreters, would sell them to the people. Honduran officials denied the allegation and in Washington a Red Cross spokesman said he thought it was just a rumor and an Agency for International Development official said he felt the Hondurans had been doing a good job.
Kenya sealed its borders to ensure orderly voting as President Jomo Kenyatta won a third five-year term unopposed in nationwide parliamentary elections. Vice President Daniel Arap Moi and three other cabinet ministers also were unopposed winners. Final results are not available but if Kenyans follow their custom of turning incumbents out of office, more than half the present 158 elected National Assembly members could lose their seats. Elections were held in Kenya for 158 of the 170 seats of the National Assembly. Although the African nation’s only legal political party was the Kenya African National Union (KANU), 740 candidates were on the ballot for the 158 positions and 88 incumbents, including four government ministers, were not re-elected. President Jomo Kenyatta appointed his choices for the other 12 seats.
President Ford vetoed and sent back to the Congress a controversial spending authority bill that would stop United States military aid to Turkey. In a message to Congress, the President said the cutoff would force this country’s withdrawal from the Cyprus peace talks and would jeopardize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The measure, Mr. Ford said, would “imperil our relationship with our Turkish ally and weaken us in the crucial eastern Mediterranean.”
The Watergate cover-up trial jury was told by the prosecution that former President Nixon was one of the central conspirators in the case and had a particularly crucial role in the spring of 1973, meeting with his chief aides to devise “scenarios” and “lines” to “cover up the cover-up.” Richard Ben-Veniste, the assistant special prosecutor, presenting the opening statement to the jury, said Mr. Nixon had held a “multitude of meetings” relating to the cover-up.
The House Judiciary Committee plans to investigate whether there was a relationship between the Rockefeller family’s unpublicized $200,000 campaign contribution to President Nixon’s re-election campaign and Mr. Nixon’s reversal of a Civil Aeronautics Board ruling involving Eastern Airlines, in which the Rockefellers hold a substantial financial interest. Within a year after the contribution was made, Mr. Nixon reversed two C.A.B. rulings and allowed Eastern Airlines to acquire Caribair, a Puerto Rican-based airline.
“I don’t have anything to add to what’s been reported,” John Ashley Wells, an attorney and long-time colleague of Nelson Rockefeller told newsmen when asked about what he had told Mr. Rockefeller about the derogatory book on Arthur Goldberg in 1970. Earlier both the author of the book, Victor Lasky and Neil McCaffrey, its publisher, had reported that Mr. Wells had been instrumental in arranging the book’s publication.
The federal government is tightening up on its billion dollar program of sewer grants to localities after determining that the projects are encouraging unsound community growth. In their apparent zeal to obtain federal subsidies, communities are building sewerage facilities on a scale calculated to handle pollution increases for as much as 2,000 years.
Antibusing demonstrators formed a 1,000-car motorcade in predominantly white south Boston and drove to a Democratic fundraiser featuring Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). Cars were parked two and three deep near the Sheraton Boston Hotel and a chanting, clapping crowd of hundreds of white demonstrators milled on either side of the doorway. After an hour, they dispersed voluntarily, before Kennedy arrived. The South Boston Home and School Assn., which organized the action, said it was formed to “show the Democratic Party that it does not reflect the will of the people with respect to busing.” School violence erupted soon after classes began September 12, when cross-busing of 18,200 pupils in south Boston and Roxbury began under a federal court order.
A firebomb was tossed through a window at an elementary school in Charleston, West Virginia, before dawn as the Kanawha County school textbook protest moved into its seventh week. Officials said several desktops were burned but otherwise damage was slight and the 200 pupils were able to attend classes. Pickets showed up at some schools but the scene was mainly quiet as buses made scheduled runs without problems. Officials said attendance was at 83%, as compared to a normal 90%.
The coal industry yielded to demands by the United Mine Workers and agreed to further discussions of key noneconomic issues threatening a strike. Spokesmen for both sides said industry negotiators agreed to put off their economic proposals until further progress was made on non-wages issues already on the bargaining table. The meeting was the first since the talks reached an impasse last week when the Bituminous Coal Operators Association presented what was described as its final offer on health and safety issues and working conditions. UMW President Arnold Miller has warned that the industry’s refusal to negotiate on these issues “all but ensures” a strike November 12 by the union’s 120,000 members.
Admiral James L. Holloway III, the new chief of naval operations, plans to increase heavily the fleet’s offensive firepower and give surface warships a bigger role in controlling the seas. Holloway said those moves were vital in order to get the most out of a fleet reduced by nearly half, to about 500 ships, since the Vietnam war peak six years ago. He spoke also of the need to use ships in a variety of missions, rather than for special purposes. To gain greater firepower against the Soviet Union’s missile-armed navy, Holloway plans to install more of the new Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles on destroyers, destroyer escorts, frigates, patrol frigates and cruisers. The radar-guided Harpoon is designed to be fired at vessels up to 60 miles away.
President Ford asked governors, big city mayors and county officials to conserve energy by enforcing the 55-m.p.h. speed limit and fight inflation by eliminating “outmoded” rules on production and supply of services that keep costs high. The President made the appeal in telegrams sent from the White House on the basis of recommendations made by a 17-member nonpartisan Citizens’ Action Committee to Fight Inflation that is trying to find ways in which Americans voluntarily can slow inflation and reduce energy consumption.
Nuclear scientist Edward Teller warned in Denver against delays in the nation’s race to develop new supplies of energy resources. Teller, who spoke at the University of Colorado Medical Center, said the nation is faced with “worldwide inflation, energy shortages and economic disorders which may surpass the catastrophe of the Great Depression.” He said the nation is “overly scared” of radiation but that the “real danger is radiation scare which will scare us away from important projects.” He said it is vital to continue projects in which nuclear blasts have been set off in an attempt to develop natural gas fields.
Watergate has “hurt the country and I think people are more cynical and skeptical about politicians and politics.” Julie Nixon Eisenhower also called it “a tragedy for the nation that something as minor as a political bugging, which has gone on since the beginning of time — my parent’s campaign plane in 1968 was bugged by the Hubert Humphrey campaign — that people in power could make the mistake of trying to cover up something that was really unimportant and let this whole thing mushroom and balloon until it became what it did.” Mrs. Eisenhower, who continues to be one of her father’s strongest supporters, commented on a wide range of subjects while taping a week’s TV appearance as co-host on the “Mike Douglas Show.” Former President Richard M. Nixon’s favorite TV show, she said, is “Kojak.” And she again insisted that her father should return to public life as a roving ambassador.
A $10,000 reward was posted by Stanford University for information leading to the conviction in the sex ritual murder of Arliss Perry, 19. Her body was discovered early Sunday.
8th Country Music Association Awards: Charlie Rich wins Entertainer of the Year and album of the Year (A Very Special Love Song); Olivia Newton-John wins Female Vocalist.
Reggie Jackson gives syndicated columnist Murray Olderman an earful after Jackson was displeased with his story in Sport magazine during a workout at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Jackson will lead his team to a third straight title vs the Dodgers.
NFL Monday Night Football:
San Francisco 49ers 13, Detroit Lions 17
A disputed pass interference penalty, set up a 1‐yard touchdown plunge by Steve Owens in the second period and the Detroit Lions added a fourth‐quarter touchdown on a 13‐yard pass from Bill Munson to Larry Walton to defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 17–13, in a National Football League game tonight. The triumph was the first for Detroit after four losses, while the 49ers dropped their third straight game after winning their first two. A goal‐line stand by Detroit in the third period took some of the steam out of the 49ers, who had gotten a 64‐yard run by Wilbur Jackson, a rookie, to the 1. San Francisco settied for a 19‐yard Bruce Gossett field goal which cut Detroit’s lead to 10–6. The Lions clinched their victory with Munson’s scoring pass 15 seconds into the final quarter. Owens’s touchdown came on the first play after a cornerback, Ralph McGill, was called for interference in the end zone against Walton, which resulted in a 32‐yard gain to the 1. In television replays of the pass, it appeared Walton may have leaned into McGill and been guilty of offensive interference.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 673.50 (+15.33, +2.33%).
Born:
Natalie Maines, American singer, lead vocalist for The Dixie Chicks (now “The Chicks”); in Lubbock, Texas.
Shaggy 2 Dope [Joseph Utsler], American rapper for the duo Insane Clown Posse, and professional wrestler; in Wayne, Michigan.
Billy Tibbetts, NHL right wing and center (Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers), in Boston, Massachusetts.
Erik Sabel, MLB pitcher (Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers), in Lafayette, Indiana.
Horace Jenkins, NBA point guard (Detroit Pistons), in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Kim Williams, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz), in Chicago, Illinois.
Died:
John Sharpe Griffith, DFC*, 75, American World War I flying ace, World War II aviator and United States Air Force colonel.
[Ed: Chinese wondering why the Gweilo is such a moron, and whether he is actually retarded. IMHO.]
[A ‘frigate’ in pre-1975 USN nomenclature; a ‘destroyer leader’ to anyone else. Re-designated a guided missile cruiser (CGN) the next year.]
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