President Ford’s veto of a measure to cut off military aid to Turkey was sustained when the House of Representatives failed by 16 votes to readopt the measure by a two-thirds majority. The House Appropriations Committee then drafted a compromise measure that would let the President delay the cutoff until December 10.
Secretary of State Kissinger returned from his Middle Eastern trip and said he had found “a general receptivity to a step-by-step approach,” to negotiations between Israel and the Arab states. Earlier, Mr. Kissinger had worked out plans for the resumption of American-Algerian relations and had conferred with Algeria’s President, Houari Boumediene, on ways to ease the oil crisis — a discussion that reportedly left Mr. Kissinger optimistic that there would be no further price increase.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot authorities released 50 of each other’s prisoners, most of them Cypriots holding foreign passports, in a resumption of an exchange of prisoners taken during the summer fighting. A U.N. spokesman said 21 Greeks, 25 Turks and four persons described as Rhodesian citizens crossed the cease-fire line in Nicosia under U.N. escort. Most of them were women, children or elderly persons.
Much of the Long Kesh Detention Centre in Northern Ireland was destroyed by prisoners incarcerated for activities in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, as 21 of the compounds in Long Kesh were set on fire. Prisoners rioted and set fire to their huts in the Maze (formerly known as Long Kesh) internment camp south of Belfast in disorders in which at least four prison guards were injured. Officials were reluctant to give details about the rioting, which broke out after a day in which gunmen opened fire on Roman Catholic workmen in Belfast. A Protestant extremist group claimed responsibility.
Israel denounced today as illegal the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to invite the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in debate on the issue of Palestine. A statement by the Foreign Ministry said the resolution, which was adopted yesterday by a vote of 105 to 4, with 20 abstentions, “will not be binding on Israel in any way.” The Foreign Ministry also called in ambassadors of governments that voted in the affirmative and expressed Israel’s displeasure. Israeli ambassadors in those capitals were likewise instructed to lodge protests. Approximately 50 of the 105 nations that voted for the resolution maintain diplomatic relations with Israel.
The Foreign Ministry’s statement said the General Assembly’s resolution was “diametrically opposed to the United Nations Charter in view of the declared aims” of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The statement said the aims, as expressed in the Palestine national covenant, “categorically deny Israel the right to exist” and declare an intention “to destroy a member of the United Nations by armed force.” The Foreign Ministry said the organization headed by Yasser Arafat was not a liberation movement at all but the umbrella organization of terrorist groups that operated in Israel and other countries.
The Soviet Union and Egypt announced that Communist Party General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev and President Anwar Sadat would hold a summit meeting in Cairo next January, signaling new efforts to improve their strained relations. Agreement on the summit came in Moscow after visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy gave an invitation from Sadat to Brezhnev during a three-hour meeting.
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said today that organized tribal insurgency against the Government in the troubled province of Baluchistan “has come to an end.” But he added that the Government was extending its amnesty deadline to December 15 to give 22 “hostile ringleaders” of the 20‐month‐old tribal rebellion the opportunity to lay down their arms. The tribal guerrillas and Government armed forces have been clashing since February, 1973. At that time Mr. Bhutto dismissed the provincial government, which was dominated by the opposition National Awami party, for lack of cooperation and for arming tribesmen.
South Vietnam’s chief peace negotiator, Brigadier General Phan Hòa Hiệp, charged that the Communists are holding 100,000 prisoners of war — 30,000 soldiers and 70,000 pro-government civilians, all captured before the 1973 cease-fire — and are working them to death on road-building projects in preparation for invasion of the south. The Việt Cộng has said it holds some prisoners captured after the cease-fire but insists that all those taken before the truce have been freed.
Japan’s cost of living rose 25.4% — the highest increase among 12 industrialized nations — in the year that ended August 31, according to the West German Bureau of Statistics and the Bundesbank (central bank). West Germany had the smallest rise at 7%. Other nations cited were: Sweden, 9.2%; Austria, 9.9%; Norway, 9.9%; Canada, 10.8%; United States, 11.2%; France, 14.5%; Belgium, 14.6%; Britain, 16.9%; Ireland, 17.8% and Italy, 20.3%.
Almost 2,000 employees were evacuated from the Sumitomo Trading Co. headquarters in Tokyo because of a telephoned bomb threat, one day after an explosion injured 17 persons in a building owned by another industrial giant, the Mitsui Trading Co. Police said a three-hour search of the 16-story. Sumitomo building failed to turn up any bomb.
Sadanori Yamanaka, director of Japan’s Defense Agency, met in Washington with Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger. The visit came amid continuing controversy over U.S. nuclear weapons being carried into Japan aboard warships but a Pentagon spokesman said it had been planned before the controversy erupted. The spokesman said Yamanaka’s visit was a courtesy call.
After drifting for weeks in the North Pacific, Japan’s first nuclear‐powered ship was finally allowed back in port today. It appeared questionable, however, whether the vessel, the cargo ship Mutsu, would ever get out on the high seas again. The ship, whose reactor sprang a leak on September 1 during its first test run, had been kept out of its home port, in Mutsu Bay at the northern tip of Honshu by protests of fishermen. They were afraid that the ship would contaminate their scallop beds in the bay. The fishermen, who had threatened to blockade the port of Ominato, relented today when the government promised to allocate the equivalent of $4.59‐million to expand fishery facilities there, to compensate fishermen for earnings lost during the fight against the Mutsu and to provide subsidies.
A 21-gun salute greeted Britain’s Prince Philip as he arrived in Gander to begin a visit to Newfoundland during the province’s 25th anniversary of its entry into confederation with Canada.
The eruption of the Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala destroyed most of the town of Yepocapa. A sudden eruption on June 3, 2018, would kill 159 people and leave 256 others missing.
The World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons was founded at a convention of pediatric surgeons in São Paulo.
Uruguay is against lifting trade and diplomatic sanctions against Cuba because Havana aids left-wing guerrillas in Uruguay, Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Blanco said in Montevideo. He said he would submit proof of Cuba’s interference at a meeting of the Organization of American States in Quito, Ecuador, next month.
The voters of Kenya, in a one‐party election, have turned out several Cabinet ministers, ineluding Foreign Minister Njoroge Mungai, who had sometimes been discussed as a successor to President Jomo Kenyatta. Under the Kenya Constitution, the President must also be a member of Parliament and Mr. Kenyatta was re‐elected to his seat unopposed. So was Vice President Daniel arap Moi. The election will bring no majer change in the direction of Kenya’s policy, which is weighted toward a free‐enterprise economy and friendly relations with the West.
The Ariel 5 space telescope, a joint project of the British space program with Italy, Kenya and the U.S., was launched into orbit from the Broglio Space Center’s platform off the coast of Kenya in the Indian Ocean.
Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent mobilizes National Guard troops to restore order in Boston after ‘school busing’ desegregation program spurs racial violence. Sargent requested President Ford today to send Federal troops into Boston and mobilized two National Guard military police units totaling 400 men in the wake of renewed racial violence in the schools. In Washington, a White House statement said that Federal troops “should only be used as a last resort” to deal with the violence in Boston. It added that no formal request for troops “would be in order until the Governor is in a position to say he has utilized the full resources of the state and that despite these efforts he can no longer control the situation.”
Governor Sargent announced the escalation of force at an afternoon news conference after seven students, all white, were injured in racial fighting during a morning class change at Hyde Park High School in the southern part of the city. One male student was hospitalized with multiple stab wounds in the abdomen. The school was closed for the remainder of the day, but a second stabbing, of a black girl, was reported later. Other less serious incidents of violence also occurred. Governor Sargent, in announcing the decision to ask for Federal assistance, said: “Racial violence has erupted and is once again threatening to spread across the city of Boston.”
Francis Tivnan, a spokesman for Mayor Kevin H. White, said the Governor, who is a Republican, had not consulted with the Mayor, a Democrat, about his decision to alert the Guard and to ask for Federal help. “The Governor,” Mr. Tivnan said, “made his decision unilaterally,” and informed the Mayor of that decision only minutes before announcing it publicly. Mayor White, who had previously strongly opposed the deployment of National Guard troops in the city, had in fact invited the Governor to a meeting at 3 PM to discuss a possible request to the President for Federal troops, a step the Mayor was said to consider unjustified at this time. Other “contingencies” were also to be discussed.
John Ehrlichman’s defense in the Watergate cover-up trial placed the blame for his own actions and the cover-up squarely on former President Richard Nixon. His attorney told the jury that Mr. Ehrlichman had been “had” by Mr. Nixon, who was trying “to save his own neck.” The lawyer attacked the credibility of John Dean, the source of most of the prosecution’s allegations against Mr. Ehrlichman.
The Supreme Court left standing the question whether the President has authority to order wiretaps to counter foreign espionage when it declined by 5 to 3 to review the conviction in 1964 of Igor Ivanov in a conspiracy to pass military information to the Soviet Union.
Nelson Rockefeller asked the chairmen of the Senate Rules Committee and the House Judiciary Committee to convene “immediate” hearings on his nomination as Vice President. He said that he was being tried in the press without a chance to present all the facts, on the basis of “selective leaks” from tax returns “submitted to the committees in confidence.” A spokesman for the House committee chairman said a full hearing could not begin before “sometime in November.”
The New Jersey Assembly, by an overwhelming voice vote, adopted a resolution that called for investigation of the $550,000 gift to Dr. William Ronan, chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, from Nelson Rockefeller, now Vice President-designate, The resolution said the gift raised “serious questions” about Dr. Ronan’s ability to continue in office. It called on Governor Byrne to veto all Port Authority decisions during the investigation.
Congress sent President Ford legislation to put as much as $8 billion into the depressed housing market, making it easier for home buyers to find credit. Mr. Ford had asked for speedy passage of the emergency housing bill and made it one of the priorities in his economic message delivered to Congress a week ago. The bill extends government authority to buy up conventional housing mortgages, in addition to those insured by federal agencies. Mr. Ford has said he will make $3 billion available immediately for the program.
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), the ranking Democrat on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, called for James T. Lynn to resign as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “This department is spending $5 billion a year and has produced no new assisted housing starts since January of 1973,” Proxmire said. “Its policies have blocked millions of families from buying the homes they need.” Lynn responded by saying, “I would be happy to resign if Senator Proxmire would also resign for the good of the nation.”
For every two persons who entered the nation’s labor force in the last three months, only one of them landed a job, the government said. In a profile of the U.S. labor market for the third quarter of 1974, the Labor Department said that of the 5 million unemployed, 2.1 million had lost their last jobs, the report said. About 1 million of the unemployed had been looking for work for at least 15 weeks and the average duration of unemployment was 9.9 weeks. The unemployment rate, which rose to 5.8% in September, averaged 5.5% for the quarter. Among blacks in poverty areas, however, the rate was 12%.
Trans World Airlines and Pan American World Airways are expected to agree formally today to split up many of their international routes and thus reduce costly competition, a TWA spokesman said. Neither airline would go into details but the New York Times reported that the agreement would eliminate head-to-head competition on thousands of miles of air routes between the United States and Europe and Asia and would cut losses of the two major companies by more than $50 million a year, Pan Am, the nation’s largest international carrier, and TWA have both suffered from declining traffic and skyrocketing costs. The agreement is subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Board and President Ford.
White House sources predicted the appointment of Dr. Robert C. Seamans, director of the National Academy of Engineering and former secretary of the Air Force, to head the new Energy Research and Development Administration which will replace the abolished Atomic Energy Commission as top federal agency in the energy development field two months from now. The sources said they expect President Ford to appoint Seamans, 55, to the $42,500-a-year post, barring some serious objection or some last-minute nomination of a more qualified candidate.
The Rev. John R. Tietjen, fired as president of Concordia Seminary of St. Louis, said he expected to be removed from the ministry of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod as well, He announced at a news conference that the Concordia Board of Control had fired him on 10 charges, including permitting false doctrine to be taught, administrative irresponsibility and insubordination. “I do not and will not accept the validity of the board’s decision,” he said.
The six-member U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) was created as U.S. President Ford signed into law an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.
In a protest in Curtiss, Wisconsin, against rising feed costs and lower prices for farm products, members of the National Farmers Organization (NFO) slaughtered 658 calves and 15 pigs and dumped their bodies in a trench. Criticism of the waste from the protest was such that even U.S. President Ford called it “shocking and senseless.”
The scene would be unthinkable in an old James Cagney movie. And Peter Delaunay, a spokesman for the Washington state penitentiary system, said, “I doubt we’ve ever had a case like this before.” Two prisoners jumped a guard at the institution in Monroe and held him for ransom, Delaunay said, and when they got it — two sack lunches and a ration of cookies — they promptly released him. “There will be some kind of punishment,” a bewildered Delaunay admitted, “but no one has yet figured out what.”
The Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Prof. Paul Flory of Stanford University for his work in the physical chemistry of macromolecules, The Nobel prize in physics was given for the first time for achievements in astrophysics. It will be shared by two British astronomers at Cambridge University, Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish.
Asylum Records releases “The Heart of Saturday Night”, the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits.
The NHL Washington Capitals earn their first franchise tie, playing the Los Angeles Kings to 1-1 draw.
In a Tuesday night World Series game 3, the surprise starter for the Dodgers is Al Downing. But Catfish Hunter is too much for Los Angeles, and Oakland wins another 3–2 game. With the Series shifting back to Oakland, it was A’s ace Catfish Hunter’s turn to be brilliant. Hunter shut out the Dodgers on four hits through seven innings, and his teammates provided him with two runs in the third when Bill North scored on an error by catcher Joe Ferguson and an RBI single by Joe Rudi. The A’s added another run in the fourth on Bert Campaneris’ RBI single. The Dodgers got their only runs on homers by Bill Buckner in the eighth and Willie Crawford in the ninth. Rollie Fingers was not awarded the save because in 1974, tougher criteria were adopted for saves where the tying run had to be on base or at the plate when the reliever entered to qualify for a save.
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Born:
Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish journalist, historian, and politician of the People’s Party (Member of the Congress of Deputies, 2019–), in Madrid, Spain.
Died:
Maury John, 54, American college basketball coach at Drake University and Iowa State University, died of esophageal cancer.
László Detre, 68, Hungarian astronomer known for his research on variable stars.
Glenn Lowell Jepsen, 71, American paleontologist at Princeton University, died of cancer.
Elizabeth du Gué Trapier, 81, American art historian.
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