The Swiss voters have rejected by a substantial margin a referendum that would have meant deporting 540,000 of the 1.4 million foreigners, including 300,000 immigrant workers, most of whom were farmhands, restaurant workers, and unskilled laborers, by January 1, 1978. The proposal lost, 66 percent against and 34 percent for.
Soviet industrial production rose more than 8% in the first three quarters of this year, compared with the same period in 1973, Pravda reported. A rundown of industrial performance figures showed substantial rises in private car construction, up 23%, and in the output of computer equipment, which increased by 31%.
Two Jewish film workers, in the fifth day of a hunger strike to protest Soviet refusal to let them emigrate to Israel, appealed in Moscow for support from U.S. movie makers in a letter to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and the participants in the current San Francisco Film Festival, in which the Soviet Union is taking part. Joining screen writer Felix Kandel and cameraman Mikhail Suslov in the appeal was Yevgeny Baras, a former reporter for the Culture Ministry newspaper.
A crowd of about 1,000 Belfast Roman Catholics stoned British soldiers and scuffled with them when troops blocked a protest march toward Maze Prison, scene of rioting last week. Soldiers fired rubber bullets to scatter the marchers, who were demonstrating for an end to internment of suspended extremists without a trial.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened in a dispute over a government decision to impose a stiff tax on the income that victims of the drug thalidomide receive from a charitable trust. The Treasury’s decision to impose a tax of 48% on such income, a move made known to the parents of Britain’s 340 thalidomide-deformed children several days ago, was described by Labor Party parliamentarian Jack Ashley as “a shattering blow” that jeopardizes the children’s future.
Pope Paul VI told a lunch party attended by the 200 prelates at the World Synod of Bishops in Rome that the unchanging faith of the Catholic Church should not lead missionaries to impose an unnatural uniformity of religious worship throughout the world. “The fixed truth of faith opens for the missionary the road to all the cardinal points of the world, not so that he should impose an unnatural uniformity but that he should learn to draw from all the voices of mankind a harmonious chorus of praise for God’s greatness,” the Pope said.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) urged President Ford to “show some real evidence of concern for the humanitarian needs and fate of the refugees” on Cyprus. Kennedy, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on refugees, made his remarks in a speech prepared for a dinner honoring Archbishop Lakovos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Americas.
Israel began today to make arrangements to cope with a possible new flood of immigrants following a Soviet pledge to the United States to allow more emigration. “It is perhaps the most wonderful thing that we have heard in the past year,” declared President Ephraim Katzir. Israeli immigration and housing officials agreed on a priority program to integrate the immigrants. No immediate details were available but the state radio said hotels and resort homes would be rented as temporary homes, and that housing construction would be increased.
The head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, will not speak on the Palestinian issue at the United Nations General Assembly next month, as had been expected, a spokesman for the guerrilla organization said today. The spokesman said Mr. Arafat’s place would be taken by his deputy, Farouk Kaddoumi. The General Assembly has invited the Palestine Liberation Organization to take part in the debate. The decision to replace Mr. Arafat was made by the organization’s executive committee, which met here today, the spokesman said No reason was given but security considerations were believed to have played a part. A Palestinian official was quoted Friday as having said, “New York is like Tel Aviv and going there is a veritable commando operation.”
Ethiopia will soon set up military tribunals to try officials of the regime of the ousted Emperor Haile Selassie, who have been charged with corruption and abuse of power, a spokesman for the Provisional Military Government said today.
More disorders were reported from Saigon where youthful anti-government demonstrators overran thinly manned police barricades and stoned the National Assembly building. Earlier the demonstrators burned a police vehicle, tore down government posters and brandished photographs of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, each with a black cross-mark over the President’s portrait. The assault on the squat National Assembly building in downtown Saigon — windows were smashed, chairs broken, potted plants uprooted and strewn about — was the climax of Saigon’s most disorderly day in a new period of sharpening political unrest.
Sundays have become demonstration days throughout South Vietnam since active opposition to the government began picking up about two months ago. Today in Huế, in the north, Senator Vũ Văn Mẫu, an Opposition leader, addressed 3,000 people at the Từ Đàm pagoda. In the delta city of Cần Thơ, 80 miles south of Saigon, the Rev. Trần Hữu Thành, who is leading a Catholic anti-corruption front, addressed a crowd estimated by its organizers at 10,000.
Danish Prime Minister Poul Hartling met for an hour with Chairman Mao Tse-tung at an undisclosed location, according to the Hsinhua news agency. Hartling was quoted as saying that Mao, 81, was lucid, well-informed and showed a sense of humor. Hartling met Premier Chou En-lai in a Peking hospital on Saturday.
Analysts in Hong Kong are not dismissing out of hand a long report last week in the Daily Telegraph of London about an intensified succession struggle in Peking following a severe stroke supon posedly suffered by Chairman Mao Tse‐tung at the end of September. Believing that the account was deliberately leaked by Chinese, the analysts view it as a calculated gambit by a faction hostile to Mr. Mao’s wife, Chiang Ching.
Typhoon Carmen dumped nearly 18 inches of rain on Hong Kong over the weekend, easing the need for severe water rationing during the normally dry winter months. In the storm’s wake, unofficial figures showed 1,600 persons were evacuated from homes and apartments, most of them buildings threatened by landslides or flooding. No fatalities were reported.
Donald S. Macdonald, Canada’s minister of energy, says it is possible that some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s oil exports to the United States will have to be phased down to near zero because of Canada’s growth. In fact, he said, “we probably will be a net importer in several years’ time.” Canada exports 800,000 to 900,000 barrels of oil a day to the United States.
Mexico’s President, Luis Echeverria Alvarez, will give top priority to seeking a solution to the problem of illegal Mexican migrants in the United States when he meets with President Ford at the Arizona border, Mexican authorities say. Reports from Mexico City indicate that it would like an agreement permitting a fixed number of Mexican farm workers to enter the United States to work during the fruit-picking season. Congress, under pressure from the labor movement, is reported opposed to such an agreement.
The Central Intelligence Agency sought to finance an extreme right-wing opposition group in Chile six weeks before the overthrow of President Salvadore Allende Gossens in September, 1973, highly reliable sources said today.
Mali’s Defense Minister accused Niger today of preventing the return of tens of thousands of Malian nomads who had taken refuge in the neighboring country during the drought and famine that afflicted this region in recent years.
Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor, said he believed that the full story of former President Nixon’s role in the Watergate cover-up would come out during the current trial of Mr. Nixon’s former top aides. He predicted that most of the White House tapes he obtained through a Supreme Court decision would be made public at the trial. He defended himself against critics who have said he should have pressed for an indictment of Mr. Nixon and that he should have contested President Ford’s pardon, of the former President. “I believe by the time the trial that is now in progress has completely unfolded, together with the evidence that has already been mentioned by the House Judiciary Committee in its report I think you are going to have the story of Watergate and Mr. Nixon’s involvement in Watergate,” M. Jaworski declared. He said there was some information that had not yet come out, but he dismissed the idea that there might be major new disclosures. “I don’t think they are anything more than cumulative,” he said.
As the Watergate cover-up conspiracy trial resumes in Washington, it is expected that another reel of tape will be played in the courtroom, with the voice of former President Richard Nixon discussing problems facing the cover-up, including the problem of Judge John Sirica, who is presiding at the current trial. Mr. Nixon, on the tape, expresses fears that the judge may try anew to unravel the cover-up.
President Ford has indicated that some conservative Republicans have urged him to abandon Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, but says he has not taken the advice seriously. “I’m still convinced he would make a good Vice President,” Mr. Ford said of Mr. Rockefeller. The President and his press secretary, Ron Nessen, who met the newsmen in shirtsleeves during a flight here from a campaign stop in Louisville, Kentucky, asked that accounts of the meeting be withheld until tonight. When the President was asked whether any conservative Republicans had asked him to withdraw the Rockefeller nomination, which has become increasingly controversial, Mr. Ford replied, “I wouldn’t say anybody seriously.” Mr. Ford, who occasionally puffed on a pipe, discussed several other matters during the 25‐minute meeting, including the following:
- He said he would “be delighted” to make public any taped conversations he had with President Nixon if the special prosecutors office had no objection. The former President has said that his taping system was scrapped months before Mr. Ford became Vice President, however, and there is no indication that such tapes exist.
- He said he hoped he had, laid to rest the Nixon pardon issue, saying of a House Judiciary subcommittee before which he testified last Thursday, “I don’t know what more they would want to know.”
- He said he had told no one on his staff that he planned any Cabinet changes, but he sidestepped an opportunity to deny that any changes were likely soon.
- He said he was encouraged by his campaign travels, adding: “If I don’t do anything and we lose, Republicans in the House would say, ‘He didn’t even try.’ At least I tried, and if the results are better than the polls say—” He did not finish the sentence, but clearly felt that such an outcome would help him.
- He defended his refusal to intervene in the Boston school desegregation controversy, and said of the long‐range answer to such problems, “That’s for judge the judge to decide.”
For Boston’s black community the controversy over court-ordered busing as part of a school integration plan is just one more step after years of struggle for better schooling. Fear on the part of parents sending their children into hostile white neighborhoods is mingled with almost desperate hopes that the only way to improve black schools is to have whites in them.
An unannounced Justice Department decision that gives the Federal Bureau of Investigation tentative approval to begin enlarging its communications system has been denounced by the acting director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. John Eger, the acting director, said he feared the Justice Department decision “could result in the absorption of state and local criminal data systems into a potentially abusive, centralized, federally controlled information system.”
A bomb exploded behind the Chicago residence of George Dunne, president of the Cook County Board and a close associate of Mayor Richard J. Daley. Police said the bomb apparently had been fashioned of one stick of dynamite ignited by a time fuse and placed in the back of the building. But they said they did not believe it was meant for Dunne, who owns the three-story structure and lives in a second-story apartment. The explosion broke several windows in nearby north side buildings.
Chicago police seized more than 20 pounds of pure Mexican heroin, worth an estimated $20 million in street sales, in what authorities called the largest narcotics seizure in the city’s history. Four persons were arrested and police confiscated the drug, hidden in a false gasoline tank, after a three-mile car chase that capped a month-long investigation. One of those arrested was Aron Reyes, about 60, described by police as a major drug smuggler and an “alleged former general or colonel of the Mexican army.”
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) accused the Food and Drug Administration of approving for sale “a potentially brain damaging” sugar substitute. FDA Commissioner Alexander M. Schmidt in turn accused Proxmire of “needless scare tactics.” Proxmire said in a statement that Schmidt was guilty of “misfeasance in office” for approving the manufacture and sale of aspartame, an artificial sweetener 180 times sweeter than sugar. Proxmire said “a number of highly competent scientists” believed that when aspartame was combined with monosodium glutamate, widely used to enhance flavor, it became highly toxic and could cause brain damage in children.
The second ranking Democrat on a House appropriations subcommittee which votes on all funds for the Pentagon is also a director and stockholder in a company that has sold over $300 million in life insurance to servicemen, the Washington Post reported. The newspaper said Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes of Florida is a director of the American Fidelity Life Insurance Co., which has been selling insurance through the Non-Commissioned Officers Association, a voluntary fraternal organization. The insurance sold by Sikes’ company allegedly was more costly than policies offered by 145 other companies. Sikes and his wife own 16,510 shares of the firm, worth about $132,000, but a spokesman for Sikes said the congressman had never used his position to help American Fidelity “or any other stock he owns.”
The price of oil, currently $11 per barrel, is likely to fall to about $7 a barrel by 1985 according to a secret government report revealed by TIME magazine. The study, titled Project Independence Blueprint, which is scheduled to be released next month, was prepared by a team of 750 energy experts for the Federal Energy Administration and states that the reason oil prices will drop is that if the present price is maintained imports will be drastically curtailed and the oil exporting nations would probably reduce their prices to maintain their markets.
A return to the fuel allocation system is likely if Americans do not voluntarily save energy during the next three to four months, Treasury Secretary William Simon said. Simon told the Washington Star-News that President Ford is prepared to reinstitute, if necessary, the system used during the Arab oil boycott. Under that program, consumers were allotted 90% of the fuel they used a year earlier. Simon also said he expects oil prices to drop by a couple of dollars a barrel-but he didn’t say when.
Bard’s presentation of “Richard III” opens at Lincoln Center NYC.
David Pearson won the 1974 American 500 stock car race at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina. By finishing third in the race, Richard Petty won the NASCAR Grand National driving championship for the fifth time.
NFL Football:
San Diego Chargers 7, Denver Broncos 27
New England Patriots 28, Buffalo Bills 30
Cincinnati Bengals 27, Oakland Raiders 30
Cleveland Browns 16, Pittsburgh Steelers 20
Baltimore Colts 35, New York Jets 20
Kansas City Chiefs 3, Miami Dolphins 9
Detroit Lions 20, Minnesota Vikings 16
San Francisco 49ers 14, Los Angeles Rams 37
New Orleans Saints 13, Atlanta Falcons 3
New York Giants 3, Washington Redskins 24
St. Louis Cardinals 31, Houston Oilers 27
Philadelphia Eagles 24, Dallas Cowboys 31
Floyd Little, back in form after finally recovering from a nagging ankle injury, accounted for 194 yards as the Denver Broncos smashed the San Diego Chargers, 27–7. He carried 15 times for 67 yards and caught seven passes for 127 yards.
After five victorious Sundays, the winning ways of the New England Patriots came to an end today as the Buffalo Bills beat them, 30–28, in a game not as close as the final score hinted. The result left the two close in the standings, tied for first place in the Eastern Division of the American Conference. Orenthal James Simpson has had more spectacular contests. It was, however, a vintage O.J. game. The losing coach, Chuck Fairbanks, was willing to grant that The Juice’s presence for Buffalo made the difference between victory and defeat. Simpson gained 122 yards rushing in 32 carries, the longest being for 15 yards, and he caught one pass for a 29‐yard gain and a touchdown following a brilliant run. “I thought we contained him fairly well,” said Fairbanks, “considering he does so many things other people can’t do.” Like what, coach? “When he sees an opening, he accelerates so fast,” Fairbanks replied. “He sees everything,” added Ray Hamilton, the Bills’ middle guard who was blocked all day by two Patriots’ linemen so O.J. could go by. Hamilton and his mates swarmed on Simpson, but pro football’s finest runner repeatedly made 8 and 9 yards where others would have achieved only 3 or 4. The Patriots played better in their first five games than the did today. Their first play from scrimmage was All right. Sam (Barn) Cunningham ran 75 yards for a touchdown on a routine offtickle play as Jim Cheyunski, a former Patriot, missed a tackle. The Bills then just about blew the Patriots out of the stadium with three touchdowns before the quarter was over. It was to the Patriots’ credit that they came back, closing to within 6 points in the second and fourth quarters as Cunningham scored twice more. Jim Plunkett, the quarterback who means as much to the Patriots as Simpson does to Buffalo, was not as sharp as usual, and 5 of his 11 completions came on a final drive. That one concluded with a touchdown pass to Reggie Rucker 5 seconds before the ended.
Charlie Smith circled right end and scored with eight seconds remaining to strengthen the Oakland Raiders’ hold on first place in the Western Division, as the Oakland Raiders squeaked by the Cincinnati Bengals, 30–27. The defeat knocked the Bengals out of first place in the Eastern Division as Cincinnati dropped behind the. Pittsburgh Steelers. The lead changed hands six times between the teams until Smith ended a 52‐yard drive that started with 96 seconds to go and the Raiders without a time‐out.
The Pittsburgh Steelers edged the Cleveland Browns, 20–16. Cleveland went down to its fourth straight defeat as the Steelers survived on the strength of a tough defense and a pair of vital field goals by Roy Gerela. Cleveland’s bid for an upset disappeared when Glen Edwards, the Steelers’ safety intercepted a pass and returned it 59 yards to the Cleveland 31 with 2 minutes remaining.
The New York Jets withered before the Baltimore Colts, 35–20, in the National Football League’s Game of the Weak. Against the Jets, though, the Colts didn’t look weak, even though they had not won a game previously this season. They could have been Super Bowl contenders as far as Charley Winner’s team was concerned. Lydell Mitchell, for example, chewed up the left side of the New York defense, rushing for 156 yards on a league record 40 carries. Bert. Jones, the second‐year quarterback, completed passes when he had to, but he was just as effective on the ground, darting 9 yards up the middle for one touchdown and 32 yards round his right end for another. The defense contributed, too, setting up two touchdowns by recovering Emerson Boozer and Clarence Jackson fumbles and by thwarting would‐be Jet drives in the first half with a sack of Joe Namath by Mike Curtis and a pass interception by Bruce Laird. In all, the Colts utterly dominated the Jets with 355 yards to 188 and 77 plays to 41. The score that sent the Jets to their fifth loss in six games would have been worse but for a dropped pass in the first quarter and an overthrown 1‐yard pass in the last.
The Miami Dolphins crept within one game of the Patriots and Bills in the Eastern Division when Larry Csonka rammed over the goal line from 1‐yard out with 17 seconds to play, escaping with a 9–3 victory over the Kansa City Chiefs. Stopped inside the 10‐yard line twice by the Chiefs, the Dolphins were able to score their 26th consecutive triumph at home. Csonka’s plunge capped a 53‐yard scoring drive that took seven plays.
The Detroit Lions upended the mighty Minnesota, Vikings, 20–16, yesterday at Bloomington, Minnesota. The triumph was the first for the Lions over Minnesota since 1967 and — combined with New England’s loss to Buffalo — left the St. Louis Cardinals as the only undefeated and untied team in the league. Bill Munson and Altie Taylor were the main revelers in the Detroit celebration. Munson, the quarterback, completed 22 of 32 passes for 276 yards. Taylor, a 5‐foot‐10‐inch running back, scored two second‐half touchdowns on slices through the rugged Vikings’ defensive line. Taylor’s second scoring run — 8 yards — put the Lions ahead for good, 20–16, with 11:13 left. He shook off four would be tacklers on the scamper. Taylor had plunged over from the 1‐yard line in the third period to lift the lions to a 13–10 advantage, but the Vikings bounced back to take a 16–13 lead on a 9‐yard touchdown pass from Fran Tarkenton to Chuck Foreman. It was Foreman’s 10th touchdown of the season. Munson completed 10 of his passes to Ron Jessie. His serial game set up Errol Mann for field goals of 36 and 27 yards in the first half. Minneaota’s only points in the first half came from a 23‐yard field goal by Fred Cox.
James Harris made a sensational debut as starting quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams by tossing three touchdown passes and running for a fourth score himself, as the Rams destroyed the San Francisco 49ers, 37–14. Harris, who replaced John Hadl, enabled the Rams to strengthen their hold on first place in the Western Division by gaining 276 yards on 12 completions in 15 attempts. His scoring passes included a 50‐yarder to Lawrence McCutcheon and a 44‐yarder to Harold Jackson.
The New Orleans Saints upset the Atlanta Falcons, 13–3. Although Archie Manhing did not play, apparently because of an injured left ankle, the Saints won a road game for the first time in 19 attempts as Bobby Scott, Manning’s replacement, passed for the game’s only touchdown. He hit Paul Seal with a 36‐yard touchdown pass late in the second quarter to overcome a 3–0 lead that Atlanta had built on a 47‐yard field goal by Nick Mike‐Mayer. Bill McClard booted two field goals to pad the New Orleans advantage.
The Washington Redskin band serenaded Sonny Jurgensen for the things he did today, and no musical tribute could have been more appropriate for a 24–3 Redskin victory over the New York Giants. While the Washington defense overwhelmed three Giant quarterbacks with five interceptions, the 40‐year‐old Jurgensen flipped three touchdown passes and again proved that quarterbacking is a blend of strong arms and minds, and never mind the tubby tummy. The Giant defense played well enough in the face of Jurgensen’s passing to escape with a 3–0 half‐time lead, after Mark Moseley missed a 27‐yard field‐goal attempt with 1 minute 55 seconds left. But the offense, which fouled up last week in the closing minute of the first half against the Eagles, could not run out the clock this time and was forced to turn over the ball 18 seconds Later. When they did, it came at the Giant 9‐yard line, after Mike Hull, one of Washington’s special‐team players, blocked a Dave Jennings punt from the New York 20. “I thought I Was back far enough,” said Jennings, the league’s leading punter. “I just didn’t get the ball off fast enough.” Jurgensen did, however, on fourth‐and‐2 from the Giant 2, with the Redskins out of time‐outs and the clock running. Shunning a huddle and calling the play at the line of scrimmage, Jurgensen went for Roy Jefferson, who was being played surprisingly loose on the left side by Eldridge Small, the right cornerback.
The St. Louis Cardinals kept their record spotless by taking advantage of numerous Houston mistakes, as they downed the Oilers, 31–27. Jim Hart, the St. Louis querterback, converted two second quarter fumbles by the Oilers into a pair of touchdown passes to Earl Thomas within a span of 92 seconds. Leading 31–13, the Cards had to hold off a strong challenge by the Oilers in the fourth quarter. A pair of 1‐yard runs into the end zone by Geoorge Amundson cut the margin to 4 points, 31–27, with 4:32 left. But Terry Metcalf returned the next kickoff 61 yards to Houston’s 32‐yard line and the Cardinals were safe.
The Philadelphia Eagles fell two games behind the Cardinals in a second‐place tie with Washington in the Eastern Division as the Dallas Cowboys won for only the second time in six games, beating the Eagles, 31–24. Calvin Hill ran for three touchdowns as he gained 147 yards on 26 carries. The winning touchdown came on a 1‐yard sneak by Roger Staubach with 9:44 to play. Staubach, who had been passing poorly in previous games, connected on 18 of 27 aerials for 224 yards.
Born:
Mohammad Sidique Khan, Pakistani-British terrorist, leader responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings; in Leeds, West Yorkshire (died 2005 in suicide bombing).
Jerald Honeycutt, NBA power forward (Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers), in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Tyrone Bell, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers), in West Point, Mississippi.
SubtractiveLAD [Stephen Hummel] Canadian electronic music composer and performer, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Died:
Élie Lescot, 90, President of Haiti from 1941 to 1946, leader in World War II.
Shathel Taqa, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Iraq, died of a heart attack while in Rabat in Morocco for a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Arab world.
Julien Bryan, 75, American photographer and documentarian known for his 1940 film “Siege,” added in 2006 to the U.S. National Film Registry as “a unique, horrifying record of the dreadful brutality of war”.
Sampson Hosking, 86, Australian rules footballer for Port Adelaide Football Club, 2-time recipient of the Magarey Medal.
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