Secretary of State Kissinger flies to Moscow tomorrow night to test the willingness of the Soviet leadership to work with the Ford administration to obtain a curb on strategic arms and settlements of European and Middle Eastern problems. Mr. Kissinger will spend three and a half days in Moscow on the first leg of a three-week trip that is expected to cover at least a dozen countries in East and West Europe, South Asia and the Middle East. Publicly, both the White House and the Kremlin have affirmed their desire to maintain the movement toward improvement of relations started by Richard M. Nixon. But in recent weeks some top American officials have begun talking privately about signs of “coolness” in Soviet behavior toward the new Administration. The officials have stressed that there was nothing tangible — no visible toughening of Soviet position — but rather that there were some signs that the Soviet leadership might be reevaluating its overall policy toward Washington.
In Moscow, Soviet officials are hoping that Mr. Kissinger’s visit will demonstrate that the Ford administration is continuing the momentum of détente begun by President Richard Nixon. There will be no lack of substance in Mr. Kissinger’s visit. The Soviet leadership is expecting discussions on the limitation of strategic arms and will question the Secretary of State on what he has achieved in the Middle East. Intertwined with these and other issues is the Kremlin’s evident eagerness for an early Meeting between President Ford and Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader. Mr. Kissinger is the logical person to be approached further on such a matter. The Russians respect him because, as a Western diplomat puts it, “he talks straight to them in private and protects their flanks in public.” At the same time the Soviet leaders want to learn whether Mr. Kissinger’s status and style have changed under the new Administration. The Kremlin wants to know, in particular, how he stands in relation to Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, whom the Russians profess to distrust.
Mr. Brezhnev would be interested in meeting Mr. Ford earlier than next summer. It has been speculated that the Soviet leaders may need such a meeting to assure conservative doubters in his own camp that Soviet‐American relation’s have remained essentially unchanged, in Mr. Nixon’s absence. But the Russians have also indicated that they would like to take their own measure of the new President, particularly on a matter like defense, where Mr. Ford’s pronouncements have given them some uneasiness. Mr. Kissinger, in the opinions of some Western diplomats, may be told that a meeting with Mr. Ford is necessary before Mr. Brezhnev can push through some tough decisions on a touchy issue like strategic arms limitation.
Nina Voronel charged today that Soviet authorities were continuing to harass her husband, who for the last 31 months has been denied an exit visa. She said a policeman had brought a summons for her husband, Aleksandr, a 43‐year‐old physicist, and announced that a hearing would open Wednesday against him on charges of parasitism, or lack of a job. The charge carries a maximum of one year in prison. Mrs. Voronel reported that the police said they would hunt down Mr. Voronel, who is out of town seeking work, if he did not appear at the hearing.
At the same time, Andrei D. Sakharov, the physicist, called on the Soviet Government to enact laws guaranteeing the right of emigration and return for its citizens, and to take other legal steps to insure that the compromise on emigration worked out in Washington last Friday would work effectively. The agreement between the Ford Administration and Congress provides trade benefits to the Soviet Union, through passage of a trade bill, in return for Moscow’s relaxation of its emigration policies. Secretary of State Kissinger is expected to discuss the agreement with Soviet officials on his visit here the week.
Greek and Turkish Cypriots exchanged fire with machine guns, mortars and rifles for an hour along the “green line” dividing the two communities in Nicosia, police said. Residents on both sides ran for shelter when the shooting started. A U.N. spokesman said a cease-fire agreement stopped the fighting. No casualties were reported. It was the first incident of its kind in three weeks.
A gunman firing from a stolen car killed two Roman Catholic workers with a burst of submachine-gun fire in Belfast. Police identified the latest victims of civil violence between Northern Ireland’s Protestant majority and Catholic minority as Michael Loughlin, 18, and his stepbrother, Edward Morgan, 27. Police said they were walking along Falls Road in a predominantly Catholic area when they were shot.
The Finance Ministers of the Common Market agreed this evening on a plan under which the nine member countries could jointly borrow up to $3‐billion from oil‐producing countries to help members cover balance-of-payments deficits caused by oil imports. Under the agreement — reached after concessions by West Germany — the loans will be guaranteed by the nine European Governments and made on a case‐by‐case basis by the nine Finance Ministers. The money can be used by the central banks only to cover deficits and cannot help pay for Government budgets. The Joans, expected to be at about market rates, will have a minimum duration of five years. Italy is expected to be the only community member to take advantage of the new credit facility immediately. Finance Minister Emilio Colombo said at today’s meeting that Italy would try to get a loan under the system as soon as possible, but he did not indicate the size.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations George Bush arrived at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Beijing to begin service as the U.S. liaison to the People’s Republic of China. The U.S. and China would not have full diplomatic relations until 1979.
Japanese leftists began a drive to stop President Ford’s scheduled visit here next month with huge rallies all over Japan today. The organizers, led by the Communist party, the Socialist party and the major labor unions, said that 2.2 million people had taken part in 456 demonstrations, including one that they said drew 70,000 flag‐carrying and banner‐waying people here in Tokyo. Kakuo Honjo, chairman of the rally held in Meiji Park in central Tokyo tonight, said in a brief interview that “we’re trying to create an atmosphere or mood among the Jananese people to stop Mr. Ford from coming here.”
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, visiting in France, and French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing sealed a reconciliation between the two countries after seven years of cool relations. The late President Charles de Gaulle of France strained friendship when he visited in Quebec and gave support to French-Canadian separatists. Moday, Giscard d’Estaing said, “After too long a period in which Canada and France — I would say, too, Canada and Europe — paid each other somewhat distracted attention, the moment has come to realize and to say that we can be first-class partners.”
President Luis Echeverria Alvarez of Mexico has confirmed in talks with President Ford that a substantial amount of oil has been discovered in his country and will be put on the world market when it can be developed. Mr. Echeverria, who with Mr. Ford visited along the Mexican-American border, said the find would be a boon to the Mexican economy. After meetings with Mr. Ford on both sides of the border, Mr. Echeverria said at a joint press conference that the new oil discoveries were very important “if we take into account world market prices — prices which we respect.” However, he was reported by American officials to have promised President Ford that Mexico would not join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the international cartel that sets the prices.
Premier Castro says he sees new hope for closer relations between Cuba and the United States because President Ford “is not involved with Cuban counter-revolutionary elements.” The Cuban leader made the remark in an interview broadcast on CBS television, in which he asserted former President Nixon was personally involved with counter-revolutionary elements. As recently as last month, Mr. Castro sharply condemned United States intervention in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende Gossens. He said it was “stupefying” to him that President Ford would publicly support the actions of the Central Intelligence Agency in Chile as he did in a news conference on Sept. 16.
Argentina’s powerful Economy Minister Jose B. Gelbard, the architect of a 10-month wage and price freeze, resigned along with his team of advisers and was immediately replaced. President Maria Estela Perón installed Alfredo Gomez Morales, a conservative Perónist and former head of the Central Bank, as economy minister. The president, without specifying the cause of Gelbard’s resignation, urged him to “take a rest until your health condition is fully stabilized.”
Fourteen persons were killed and 66 wounded at Lourenco Marques, the capital of Mozambique, in the worst outbreak of racial violence in the East African territory since early September. Military sources said nine whites and five blacks, including soldiers of Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front, died in street fighting which rocked the city center. Black soldiers fought white Portuguese troops into the night, and street battles spread to the shantytowns where African mobs began attacking whites at roadblocks and beating up bus passengers, police said.
The white minority government of South Africa announced that it would increase the minimum wage paid to the nation’s 400,000 black miners by 33 percent, effective December 1, though still less than the wages paid to 4,000 white miners. For the black and coloured South Africans, the increase for underground miners was to $2.28 per day from $1.71, and surface miner daily wages would increase from to $1.71 from $1.43. Blacks from nearby countries, who make up more than 75% of South Africa’s mining force, had demanded better pay and threatened not to work unless they got it.
The African members of the U.N. Security Council circulated a proposed resolution to expel South Africa from the United Nations for an alleged persistent violation of the principles of the U.N. Charter. Kenya was reported to be the main author of the resolution, which also asks for a world arms embargo against the racially segregated nation.
Judge Charles Richey of Federal District Court ordered a delay in carrying out an agreement on White House tape recordings and papers between the Ford administration and former President Nixon. The judge issued a temporary restraining order barring Ford administration officials from “effectuating the terms and conditions of the agreement.”
Henry Ruth, the deputy special Watergate prosecutor, is expected to be named this week to succeed Leon Jaworski, whose resignation as special prosecutor takes effect on Friday. Sources in and out of the government confirm that Mr. Ruth has been the only candidate for the prosecutor’s post given serious consideration since Mr. Jaworski tendered his resignation on October 12. Philip W. Buchen, the White House counsel, is reported to have spoken today with Attorney General William B. Saxbe, whose responsibility it is to fill the special, prosecutor’s post, about the selection of a replacement for. Mr. Jaworski. One source said that he expected a formal announcement of Mr. Ruth’s appointment to be made on Wednesday, “unless a hitch develops.” Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, said on October 12 that Mr. Saxbe’s choice for Mr. Jaworski’s replacement would be made only after thorough consultation with President Ford “and with the President’s approval because of the importance of the position.”
Despite the heated objections of defense counsel, the jury in the Watergate case heard the tape recording in which Richard Nixon said he wanted his aides to “stonewall it… plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it’ll save it save the plan.” Mr. Nixon made these remarks on March 22, 1973, to John Mitchell, his former re-election campaign director and now one of the five defendants on trial in the Watergate case.
The New Jersey Senate has approved a legislative investigation of Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller’s $550,000 gift to Dr. William Ronan, the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The resolution drew unanimous support from both parties.
The Supreme Court announced that it had agreed to decide whether involuntary patients in public mental hospitals have a constitutional right to receive some sort of psychiatric treatment, rather than merely custodial care. The Court’s decision in the case could have extensive impact on the national system of state mental institutions, forcing them to upgrade their professional staff or to release thousands of patients they cannot afford to treat.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that home buyers would get a larger break than originally expected under new federal legislation providing low-interest loans. Officials had said last week, when President Ford signed legislation earmarking up to $7.75 billion for the home loan program, that the effective rate would be 9%, compared to about 10% on most current loans. But HUD said recomputation of a complicated formula tied to the Treasury’s borrowing costs had pegged the initial rate at 8.5%.
The U.S. Postal Service in its first three years of operation has abused its special legal position and “has failed to noticeably improve the quality of mail service,” concluded a House small business subcommittee. Furthermore, “its operating deficit has doubled and the cost of first-class mail has increased by 25%,” the report said and called for an end to the Postal Service’s monopoly on handling the mail. It called also for special subsidies for small newspapers and magazines and for the closing of the service’s retail “Postiques,” which sell mail preparation and packing items.
The FBI needs more black, Spanish-named and women agents to help combat an accelerating crime rate, said FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley. But he acknowledged there did not seem to be a way to put many more of them on the payroll immediately. Kelley, in Chicago to address a lunch sponsored by the Chicago Crime Commission, told reporters the bureau had 8,500 agents and a backlog of 3,000 applications. Kelley was asked how he could get more women and minority-group members on the force without jumping them closer to the top of the hiring list. That was the problem, he admitted, “but we are not going to hire anybody ahead just on that basis. We will hire people who will stand on their own merits.”
Jury selection began today in Federal District Court in the trial of eight former National Guardsmen indicted for violating the civil rights of students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, in a confrontation in which four students were killed and nine were wounded. Judge Frank J. Battisti allowed defense and prosecution lawyers to begin challenging prospective jurors at once because of the severe sentences the guardsmen could receive if convicted. Five of the former members of Troop G of the 107th Armored Cavalary were accused of felony in wilfully assaulting and intimidating student anti‐Vietnam war demonstrators in the campus confrontation. Because of the deaths, the five accused guardsmen could receive a maximum penalty of life imprisonment if convicted. The three other guardsmen are accused of misdemeaners and face a maximum penalty of one year in prison and A $1,000 fine.
National Airlines reached a tentative agreement with mechanics on ending a strike that had grounded all of its flights since July 1. A company spokesman said flights would not be resumed until the contract was ratified by the 1,600 striking members of the International Association of Machinists. The proposed contract is believed to be similar to pacts negotiated earlier by the union with other lines which included cost-of-living increases and raised base pay from $6.60 an hour to more than $7.60.
The police are investigating an allegation that two Black Muslims extorted $99,600 from the food giveaway program set up to help free Patricia Hearst, The San Francisco Chronicle reported today. The money was paid after the two men threatened to sabotage the $2.3‐million People in Need program, set up at the orders of the self‐styled Symbionese Liberation Army, the newspaper said. The paper said that information leading to the investigation had been provided by Lee T. Ross, 26 years old, a friend of the Hearst family who helped run the food giveaway program, and that his story had been confirmed by the former program director, A. Ludlow Kramer, Secretary of State in Washington.
More than $3 million was stolen over the weekend in Chicago from the Armored Express Co. and investigators say two weekend bombings might have been set to divert attention from the theft. The bombings, a day apart, occurred near the company’s building on the north side. Police speculated that the explosions, which injured no one, had been designed to cover the thieves’ entrance and exit from the Armored Express officers. The loss was discovered Monday morning after employes noticed smoke coming from the vault. The company transports money for banks and other businesses. No signs of forced entry were found and police said the thieves apparently had circumvented the burglar alarm.
New York City’s Human Rights Commissioner warned that racial hostility would become the central problem of the city’s high schools unless there was immediate action to temper it. Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton urged the Board of Education, as well as individual schools, to initiate a full-scale drive aimed at preventing student clashes and calming neighborhoods.
Poisonous chemical wastes have been burned off American shores for the first time. The Dutch incinerator ship Vulcanus began burning 4,628 tons of wastes in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, a Shell Oil spokesman said. The Environmental Protection Agency issued Shell Chemical Co. a test permit to burn a shipload of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the gulf about 130 miles south of Cameron, Louisiana. The incineration, expected to last nine days, is being heavily monitored. If the incineration causes no problems, Shell is expected to seek permits to burn three more loads over a two-month period.
“The Wiz,” a musical based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but retold in the context of 1970s African-American culture and featuring an all-Black cast, was given its first performance. The show premiered at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore.
The New York Islanders and goaltender Billy Smith’s first shutout win, 5–0 vs the Washington Capitals
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Angela Richardson, British Conservative Party politician (MP for Guildford, 2019–2024), in West Auckland, New Zealand.
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Donald Goines, 37, African-American writer of urban fiction, and his common-law wife, Shirley Sailor, were murdered in their apartment in Highland Park, Michigan. The murders remain unsolved.
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