In Moscow, Secretary of State Kissinger met with Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet party leader, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for six and a half hours of talks dominated by discussions of the Middle East situation, European security problems and Soviet-American trade. The issue of strategic‐arms limitation, which was expected to figure prominently in Mr. Kissinger’s visit, came up later tonight and will be taken up again tomorrow. An American spokesman characterized the discussions as having taken place in “a very cordial atmosphere.” During a luncheon, Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Gromyko described the exchanges as “frank,” indicating differences on various issues. Mr. Kissinger termed today’s talks “a very good beginning.”
No public indication was given today of agreement on a possible meeting next month between Mr. Brezhnev and President Ford, though the subject was believed to have come up. Such a meeting, which has been urged by the Russians, is now considered increasingly likely for two days in the Soviet Far East after Mr. Brezhnev completes a visit to Mongolia and Mr. Ford one to Japan. During a luncheon toast today, Mr. Gromyko stressed Moscow’s interest in continuing the policy of accommodation with Washington laid out under Richard M. Nixon. The Foreign Minister said it was “too early to speak of or even hint at the possible outcome” of today’s meeting with Mr. Kissinger, but he said that Mr. Brezhnev had found it “a very useful one.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto of Pakistan arrived in Moscow for a visit and began talks with Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin, who greeted him at the airport. Mr. Bhutto’s visit was seen as part of a Soviet effort to rebuild relations with Pakistan following their near‐rupture when the Soviet Union sided with India in the 1971 fighting over Bangladesh. Tonight at a dinner for Mr. Bhutto, Mr. Kosygin asserted that “there exist objective conditions for development of Soviet‐Pakistani relations and, as we see, the mutual wish to elevate our bilateral relations to a higher plane.”
In his second press conference since his inauguration last June, French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing warned that the world was in the grip of an economic crisis and “all the curves are leading us to catastrophe.” In his gloomy picture, President Giscard d’Estaing said the “enduring crisis” involved a redistribution of resources with “global consequences,” Then, in a happier vein, the French President said he was confident “France can deal with her difficulties in the present and in the future.”
Maurice Siegel, head of the government-controlled Europe No. 1 Radio Network — France’s most widely listened-to network — has been dismissed amid a controversy over the station’s criticism of President Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s administration. No formal explanation was given but political sources said Premier Jacques Chirac was incensed earlier this week when a station correspondent told listeners Chirac was making paper dolls in parliament while the finance minister was presenting the budget.
A gunman surrendered to police at Nice airport without a struggle after holding an Air France hostess hostage at an airline counter for more than 12 hours. The man, who identified himself as Daniel Rey Caruso and said he was an Argentinian traveling on a fake Mexican passport, had demanded the release of his wife from a jail in Milan, Italy. A newswoman convinced Rey Caruso to let her help him, and police disguised as photographers succeeded in capturing him. Milan police said Mrs. Rey Caruso was freed some time ago.
Several hundred Greek Cypriot students, let out of school for the day to protest U.S. policy on Cyprus, marched on the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia. They chanted slogans and carried placards denouncing Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and the Central Intelligence Agency, which many Greek Cypriots feel had a role in July’s Turkish invasion of the island.
The once-outlawed Protestant paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force summoned reporters to a meeting in Belfast with five senior UVF Commanders wearing masks and dark glasses and announced it would attempt to halt the current spate of sectarian killings. Since mid-September, an estimated 15 people, mostly Catholics, have been assassinated in Northern Ireland. The UVF blamed the newly emerged Ulster Protestant Action group for the murders and said the majority of the assassins were “kids with no sense.”
The fourth World Synod of Bishops gave preliminary approval to a message calling on all Roman Catholics to take an active role in upholding and spreading the Gospel. The message was in the first of two drafts approved after a nearly month-long debate on “evangelization in the contemporary world.” The second draft of the synod-to end Saturday-is intended as a summary of debate topics that will be submitted to Pope Paul VI.
The world-renowned Soviet violinist, David Oistrakh has died in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at the age of 65. He had been in the Netherlands for a series of Brahms concerts with the Amsterdam Philharmonic and since October 7 had conducted six concerts, the last on Tuesday, and had been soloist in three of them. The body will be taken to Moscow for burial.
The National Religious party voted tonight to join the Israeli Government of Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Its shift from the Opposition is calculated to stabilize the Government coalition, which has been shaken by political mavericks, including former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. If all 10 Religious party deputies in Parliament abide by the decision made by their central committee, the Government’s governing margin in Parliament will grow from to 11. The central committee vote was 301 to 193. Mr. Rabin’s present left‐ofcenter coalition is an alignment of the Labor, Mapam and affiliated Arab parties as well as the Independent Liberals and the Civil Rights Move ment. They control 61 of the 120 seats.
Arab foreign ministers failed today for the third day to reach agreement on how to end a long‐standing quarrel between the Palestinian leaders and King Hussein of Jordan. The Palestinian delegation accused the foreign ministers of greeting all its proposals “with complete silence” and threatened, in effect, that Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, would boycott the conference of Arab leaders scheduled to open here on Saturday. Said Kamal, assistant head of the guerrilla organization’s political department, called a news conference to announce that following the foreign ministers’ failure to meet the Palestinian demands in many hours of discussion, his delegation would report the lack of success to Mr. Arafat. Mr. Kamal added that the Palestinians might walk out of the preparatory talks if the foreign ministers failed to act.
In South Vietnam, Information Minister Hoàng Đức Nhã, a cousin of president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and one of his closest advisers, resigned today along with three other Cabinet members. Mr. Nhã and another departing Minister, Nguyễn Đức Cường of Commerce and Industries, have been under persistent public criticism. Mr. Thiệu, who himself has been attacked by an increasingly vocal opposition coalition, approved the resignations and instructed Premier Trần Thiện Khiêm to realign the government. The resignations were announced in an official communiqué today. The resignation of the 32‐year‐old Mr. Nhã had been expected. It was widely interpreted as an attempt by the president to cool the political temperature in Saigon, which has been buffeted by a wave of small but occasionally tempestuous demonstrations and protests. Yesterday an alliance of newspaper publishers and press associations called upon the President to dismiss Mr. Nhã, whose responsibilities included censoring newspapers and seizing those that he found objectionable.
Reporters for South Korea’s largest newspaper called off an unusual 11-hour strike last night when their publisher acceded to a demand for publication of their statement denouncing Government press restrictions.
China may be preparing for a new nuclear test in the atmosphere, U.S. intelligence sources reported. It would be the second such blast this year and China’s 17th since it started testing 10 years ago. The sources — who declined to disclose how such activity was detected — said the movement of special equipment normally associated with nuclear testing has been taking place at the Lop Nor test center in northwest China.
An earthquake registering 6 on the Richter scale struck the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Mexican seismological office reported. Police in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital, reported no damage or injuries, although people ran into the streets after two strong shocks of about half a minute each. Chiapas is one of two Mexican states where major new oil finds are located. No damage to oil installations was reported.
South Africa, facing a drive led by black Africans to expel her from the United Nations, today declared that her race relations were changing. She appealed to the world or ganization to “keep open the channels of communication” to encourage further change. “South Africa can be expelled from this organization, but not from the planet,” the nation’s new delegate to the United Nations, Roelof F. Botha, told the Security Council. Mr. Botha, a member of South Africa’s governing National party and the South African parliament, presented his Government’s case in an hour‐long address. His speech, respectful in tone and conciliatory in substance, followed statements by 17 speakers who had all been strongly, even violently, critical of the racial policies of the Government.
Senator Barry Goldwater, symbolic leader of the Republican conservative wing, has backed away from his initial support of Nelson Rockefeller’s vice-presidential nomination. Mr. Goldwater said he had told President Ford he was no longer bound by his original statement of support for Mr. Rockefeller. Speaking at Arizona State University, Mr. Goldwater went on to say: “The whole subject is not whether he has millions of dollars. It’s whether or not he’s used these millions of dollars to buy power. I think that’s wrong.” he Senator could not be reached in Arizona today to amplify his statement. A staff member in his office here said that he had made the comment in a question‐and‐answer period after a speech at the university and was “in the process of making up his mind.” However, Senator Goldwater said in a Tucson radio interview that “right now I think there’s a better chance his name will be withdrawn than be submitted for further questioning.”
Doctors have decided to hold off surgery for former President Richard Nixon at Long Beach Memorial Hospital Center and have decided to try another round of anti-coagulation therapy, a medical spokesman said. Mr. Nixon, unexpectedly readmitted to the hospital, is under treatment for complications that developed in treatment of phlebitis in his left leg. The decision to defer an operation was made after a vascular surgeon, Dr. Eldon Hickman, examined Mr. Nixon at the Memorial Hospital Medical Center here. Because of complications that had developed in Mr. Nixon’s phlebitis treatment, the former President was unexpectedly readmitted last night to the same hospital from which he was discharged three weeks ago. The complications were not of an emergency nature, Dr John C. Lungren, Mr. Nixon’s chief physician, said.
Judge John Sirica has told defendants, lawyers and spectators, but not the jury, at the Watergate cover-up trial that the case never would have occurred if John Mitchell, one of the five defendants had said, “get them out fast,” when Nixon campaign employees first showed him plans for illegal political intelligence operations. Mr. Mitchell’s attorney made a formal objection to the remarks for the record.
Maurice H. Stans, commerce secretary under former President Richard M. Nixon and later Mr. Nixon’s reelection campaign finance chief, denied offering to make a special deal to escape serious Watergate-related charges that he received illegal campaign contributions. “Any matters or questions concerning Watergate are being handled by my attorney in Washington,” he said in an interview. “But, in answer to your question, no, I have not made that offer.” Reports have said that more than two weeks ago Stans, through his attorneys, offered to plead guilty to minor campaign law violations in exchange for a pledge that he would not be prosecuted on more serious charges.
President Ford, continuing his hectic schedule of campaign appearances for Republican candidates, tonight blamed the Democrat controlled Congress for the nation’s economic ills.
General Motors Corporation has announced plans to lay off 6,000 workers indefinitely at four plants making small cars. The corporation is cutting its production schedule of the fourth quarter of the year by 93,000 cars and is revising its industry 1975 model year sales forecast downward from 10 million to 9.5 million cars.
The Federal Communications Commission has given final approval to a policy statement that all television stations must provide a reasonable amount of programming for children and that a significant part of it should be educational. The 37-page statement also said that broadcasters should provide for the viewing needs of preschool children.
A government task force backed off from its earlier recommendation that hearing aids be sold only on a doctor’s prescription. The experts in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare had concluded last month that prescriptions would prevent the sale of hearing aids to persons who could not benefit from them. But the task force chairman, David M. Link, said other HEW agencies had convinced the group that prescriptions in the traditional sense would not work. Link said that instead the task force suggested that a group of hearing specialists, hearing aid dealers and consumers meet “to investigate and develop specific proposals to control and improve the delivery system.”
A jury of four women and eight men was seated in Cleveland to try eight ex-Ohio national guardsmen indicted in the 1970 Kent, Ohio, State University shootings. The defendants are charged with violating the rights of and assaulting and intimidating the victims of the May 4, 1970, confrontation of guardsmen and demonstrators protesting U.S. military involvement in Cambodia. Four students were killed and nine others wounded. All answered no when asked whether they opposed war in any form and whether any had actively campaigned to end the Vietnam war.
Judy Petty, a Republican opposing Democrat Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, for his Arkansas congressional seat, reversed her pledge not to use the “tidal basin incident” in the campaign. She said in Little Rock that a representative’s annual salary did not “provide for a $1,700 evening’s entertainment” and called for a full disclosure of Mills’ finances and an audit by the Internal Revenue Service. Mrs. Petty was referring to the October 7 predawn incident in which Mills and a former stripper, Annabella Battistella, stage name “Fanne Foxe,” were involved. Mills has denied reports that he spent up to $1,700 one night in the Washington, D.C., Silver Slipper nightclub.
For the first time in many years, and perhaps the first time ever, the Supreme Court has refused to accept a brief filed by an attorney and has ordered him to rewrite it or lose his chance to argue his case before the Justices. In an 8–1 vote, the justices rejected the brief as not being concise.
The problems within the Episcopal Church widened with the announcement in St. Louis that the diocese of eastern Missouri had voted to ordain and license women priests. In a unanimous vote earlier in the week the diocese’s 12-member standing committee said it would “consider candidates for ordination without regard to their sex.” The Rev. Charles F. Rehkopf, diocesan administrator, said the change was the first full opening for regular and valid ordination of women in the American Episcopal Church.
David and Julie Eisenhower were ordered to appear in the District of Columbia Superior Court on November 26 to show cause why they should not be sent to Florida to testify in the case of a man charged with forging a $4 million check. James Gokey, 29, also known as J. Allen Durham III, claims the Eisenhowers are close friends of his. According to court papers, Gokey wants them to testify about his “state of mind.” Gokey is charged in Dade County (Miami) with forging a $4 million check for a 120-foot yacht. A spokeswoman for Mrs. Eisenhower said neither she nor her husband had ever met Gokey.
The U.S. Air Force successfully fired a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been dropped from a C-5A military transport aircraft at an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,100 m) off the coast of southern California. The missile was the largest object ever dropped from an airplane.
Billy Martin of the Texas Rangers is named American League Manager of Year.
The Houston Astros purchase outfielder Jose Cruz from the Cardinals. Unable to crack the St. Louis lineup, the 27-year-old stars for the next 13 seasons in Houston. The best Astro player in the 1980s, Cruz has six seasons hitting over .300 and leads the team in RBIs seven times.
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Born:
Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, son of English Prince Richard, in London, England, United Kingdom.
Corey Dillon, NFL running back (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 39-Patriots, 2004; Pro Bowl, 1999-2001, 2004; Cincinnati Bengals, New England Patriots), in Seattle, Washington.
Will Brice, NFL punter (St. Louis Rams, Cincinnati Bengals), in Lancaster, South Carolina.
Jamal Mayers, Canadian NHL right wing and center (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Chicago, 2013; St. Louis Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Wilton Guerrero, Dominican MLB second baseman, pinch hitter, and outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers, Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals), in Don Gregorio, Dominican Republic.
Died:
Yekaterina Furtseva, 63, Soviet Minister of Culture since 1960, and the only woman in Soviet history to serve as a member of the Soviet Communist Party’s ruling Politburo (serving from 1957 to 1960). Furtseva died of a heart attack, though there were rumors that Furtseva committed suicide after losing her seat in the Soviet Union’s Presidium in June.
David Oistrakh, 66, Ukrainian violinist, died of a heart attack.
James C. Dozier, 89, United States Army lieutenant general, World War I Medal of Honor recipient.
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