Four convicts freed the last child hostage — an 11-year-old boy — from the Scheveningen Prison chapel in Holland but negotiations for release of the remaining 16 captives were thrown into confusion by the refusal of a Palestinian guerrilla to join the gunmen. The four convicts, two Arabs and two Dutchmen, seized the chapel during Mass on Saturday. They demanded that authorities bring them Sami Hussein Taminah, a convicted aerial hijacker. But Taminah surprised the prison rebels by refusing to join them.
Soviet leaders took a hard stand on the issue of West Berlin at the start of talks with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Communist Party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, who met Schmidt at Moscow’s airport along with Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, said later at a dinner party that a better agreement on West Berlin “could hardly be achieved” under present conditions. West Germany wants freer access to West Berlin, which is surrounded by Communist East Germany.
A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded inside a stolen truck near Abercorn Barracks at Ballykinler, Northern Ireland, and destroyed the two-story Sandes Home for Soldiers, killing British soldiers Alan Coughlin and Michael Swanick and injuring 31 other people. A branch of the Irish Republican Army’s Provisional wing claimed responsibility for the blast. No warning was given. The van, packed with about 300 pounds of explosives, blew up as soldiers crowded into the building for their midmorning break. About 100 persons, including soldiers’ wives and children, were in the center. All but three of the casualties were soldiers, the army said.
On the same day in Birmingham, England, an attempt was made by the Provisional IRA against UK Sports Minister Denis Howell, using a car bomb. Howell’s wife and 10-year-old son were in the car but were unhurt.
Malta will soon sever all ties with Britain and reorganize as a republic, according to Dom Mintoff, prime minister of the Mediterranean island. Malta is a member of the British Commonwealth. It gained partial independence in 1964 but the constitution left responsibility for defense and foreign affairs to the British.
After months of pessimism about the future of the European Common Market, high West German officials have welcomed recent French proposals for closer political ties within the community as potentially a historic turning point. The heads of government of the Market’s nine member countries are due to meet in Paris in about six weeks. They are expected to act on French proposals for a gradual lessening of members’ veto powers in reaching community decisions and for turning such gatherings into regular decisionmaking councils.
The secretary of Italy’s Communist party, Enrico Berlinguer, today challenged Italy’s political establishment either to find an effective solution to the country’s problems,or accept his Party’s proposals for a method of government. Speaking at the end of a meeting with President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale Palace, Mr. Berlinguer said that his party’s repeated requests for a government “based on the cooperation of all the popular forces” have won the support of “an increasing number of citizens” and that the necessity for a new policy is proved by Italy’s current political crisis.
The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was slammed into a Cherbourg pier by high winds and gashed a 60-foot hole in her side just above the water line as she prepared to sail for New York. Both legs of a longshoreman injured in the accident were amputated but no passengers were hurt. A decision will be made Wednesday as to whether the ship can be repaired in France or must go to Southampton.
Arab heads of state including Jordan’s King Hussein have unanimously issued a declaration calling for the creation of an independent Palestinian state and recognizing the Palestine Liberation Organization as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestine people.” The decision was a victory for Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader. King Hussein, who had been at odds with the Palestine Liberation Organization over who would administer any areas of the occupied West Bank that Israel might relinquish, accepted the decision “without any reservations,” according to Sayed Nofal, deputy secretary general of the Arab League, who read the text of the declaration to reporters tonight. The Arab declaration raised several questions but left a number of issues in doubt. It was unclear why King Hussein concurred in the declaration and what his role in future Middle East negotiations would be.
In addition, the Arab declaration was regarded as a blow to Secretary of State Kissinger, who had hoped to leave the Palestinian issue for a later stage in his step‐by‐step approach to peace in the Middle East. Instead, it was noted, the Palestine Liberation Organization has now become a major participant in the diplomatic maneuvering. The declaration, which was approved by the presidents and kings of Arab League countries and by Mr. Arafat, called on Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to hold consultations with the aim of concerting their efforts in the future.
An Israeli soldier was wounded today by small‐arms fire from southeast Lebanon, an army spokesman said. Israeli forces returned the fire, he added. The incident occurred as troops, border policemen and civilian guards were searching for at least seven guerrillas believed to have infiltrated across the border.
An Israeli military court today sentenced two Dutch women to prison for three and a half months for having smuggled a letter written in invisible ink to Arab guerrillas. The women, Margareta Heinsbroek and Paula Witkam, have about two months left to serve because the court made their sentences retroactive to September 13, the day they were arrested. They were arrested after soldiers had found the invisible message between the lines of a poem written in one of their notebooks. The message allegedly was from a guerrilla in Damascus who had befriended the women. Both sighed with relief, at the sentences. They could have gone to jail for 10 years.
Saudi Arabia plans to announce shortly a modest unilateral reduction in the price of her oil and the freezing of the price at its new level for a year according to an Arab source at the Rabat, Morocco, meeting of Arab leaders. The cut, said to be less than 10 percent, will be announced next week and other oil-producing countries are expected to announce similar reductions soon afterward.
Prince Makonnen, grandson of Ethiopia’s former Emperor Haile Selassie, has been dishonorably discharged from the Ethiopian army, the military regime announced. The young lieutenant, who has been missing for about two weeks, was last reported in the United States, where he had been undergoing advanced armored vehicle training. The regime said all the prince’s property and holdings had been confiscated.
Secretary of State Kissinger has called on India, as the newest nuclear power, to join the United States and other nations in an effort to prevent the spread of nuclear technology that could be used in weapons. In a major speech in New Delhi, Mr. Kissinger urged India to support efforts to drive down the price of oil at this time of food crisis, reminding his audience that high prices directly affected food prices.
In a display of force, uniformed and plainclothes policemen in Saigon cordoned off three blocks of downtown Tự Do Street today with barbed wire and jeeps in anticipation of demonstrations that never materialized. Police jeeps and barbed wire were also arrayed on the nearby block where Mrs. Ngô Bá Thành (Phạm Thị Thanh Vân), a lawyer and a vociferous opponent of the Government, lives. Also closed off was the Tịnh Sương pagoda in the slum area of Phú Nhuận, where a group of militant Buddhist nuns live. The nuns have frequently joined Mrs. Thành in demonstrations against the Government. Last Sunday, they were with a group of youthful demonstrators who stoned the National Assembly building.
The nuns and Mrs. Thành are unable to leave their neighborhood, though the outspoken lawyer lay down tonight on Cao Bá Quát Street behind a roll of barbed wire as a protest against the police action. The police apparently plan to cordon off Tự Do Street and the National Assembly building through November 1, National Day, the anniversary of the “revolution” that toppled the Ngô Đình Diệm regime in 1963. It is an emotional time for Roman Catholics, Buddhist and soldiers, and there have been reports that several demonstrations are planned. Additionally, on Thursday a trial of the managements of three Opposition newspapers which published a priest’s “indictment” of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, is scheduled to begin. A group of volunteer defense lawyers hope to turn the event into a trial of the regime.
North Vietnamese Deputy Premier Lê Thanh Nghị and his delegation left Peking today to return to Hanoi after signing an economic and military aid agreement with China, the North Vietnamese news agency reported.
Policemen in Seoul, South Korea, used tear gas against 2,000 students today as thousands of other protestors demonstrated against the government. No injuries or arrests were reported. The outbreaks followed protests by newsmen across the nation last week against government suppression of the press. The students, all wearing black ribbons to symbolize “the death of democracy,” clashed with policemen outside a gate at Ewha Women’s University but were forced back to the campus, where they staged a sit‐in. They demanded a new constitution and the release of students, church leaders and others jailed for political activities against the Government of President Park Chung Kee. They said they would wear the ribbons until democracy was restored.
Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka departed today on a 12‐day journey to New Zealand, Australia, and Burma — leaving behind growing doubts that he will survive in office much longer. The Premier’s trip, his third abroad this year, is part of Japanese “resources diplomacy” aimed at obtaining assured supplies of raw materials. Mr. Tanaka, who earlier went to Southeast Asia and to North and South America, calls it “pan-Pacific diplomacy.” Despite the clear blue skies, Mr. Tanaka left Haneda International Airport today under a cloud. He is being criticized within his own party over charges that he has illegally or unethically enriched himself while in office, or used illegally obtained funds for political purposes.
Typhoon Elaine, the strongest to hit the Philippines this season, blew down houses, uprooted trees and triggered landslides in a sweep across the northern Philippines farmlands in the province of Ilocos Sur. Winds up to 115 m.p.h. were reported. First reports said 25,000 people were left homeless. There were no reports of deaths. The typhoon later traveled northwest into the South China Sea.
The Soviet Union launched the robotic lunar lander Luna 23 toward the Moon, with the goal of drilling 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) into the lunar service, collecting a sample, and returning the sample to Earth. When Luna 23 landed on the Moon on November 6, however, it tipped over and was unable to carry out its mission.
At the Watergate cover-up trial, E. Howard Hunt, one of the seven men who were allegedly paid off to keep silent about the break-in, testified that until now he had withheld the “entire truth” on the subject. Mr. Hunt said he lied to the Watergate grand jury in the spring of 1973, and to the Senate Watergate committee in September, 1973.
Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller has announced a new list of loans made to friends, associates and family members. The total in the last 17 years comes to $507,656, of which $147,733 has not been repaid. The new list is in addition to an earlier one listing gifts, some in the form of forgiven loans, to past or present officials and staff members, which amounted to a total of about $2 million.
Former President Richard M. Nixon will undergo “urgent” surgery at 5:30 AM Pacific standard time (8:30 AM New York time) tomorrow to clamp off a vein in his thigh, and thereby prevent a clot from running away and lodging in his lung, Mr. Nixon’s doctors said tonight. Mr. Nixon’s doctors decided on the urgent surgery because a vein X‐ray test tonight showed further large clots extending into the iliac vein and inferior vena cava in his pelvis and abdomen. Mr. Nixon agreed to undergo the expected one‐hour operation because the surgical consultants to Dr. Eldon Hickman and Dr. Wiley Barker said the clot threatened to become a pulmonary embolus and thus endanger the former President’s life.
Dr. John C. Lungren, Mr. Nixon’s personal physician, said that the operation involved exceptional risk because Mr. Nixon was taking blood‐thinning drugs. Dr. Lungren said that Mrs. Nixon and their two daughters had been informed and agreed to the need for surgery. “X‐ray pictures made during the special test confirmed the presence of a large clot extending to the left external iliac artery, the vessel that connects the femoral artery in the thigh to the interior versa cava,” Dr. Lungren’s statement said. The vena cave is one of two large veins in the leg.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender and other non-financial characteristics of applicants) and its amendment, the Fair Credit Billing Act (protecting consumers from unfair billing practices and giving them remedies for fixing problems), were signed into law by U.S. President Ford.
As World War II ended, Washington embarked on an unusual and far-reaching program to feed millions of hungry people overseas, at little or no cost to the recipients. Now, with even more people in desperate need of food, Washington is quietly winding down its “Food for Peace” programs. One program, ended a year ago, was the shipment of powdered milk, upon which millions of children depended.
The Federal Energy Administration has published two regulations that could force some international oil companies to cut gasoline and oil prices temporarily by a penny or two a gallon. The regulations deal with “transfer” prices paid by American oil companies for imported crude oil purchased from their foreign affiliates. The agency estimated that of the 16 million barrels of oil consumed daily in this country, about three million are bought by refiners from their foreign affiliates.
A tornado hit the Houston suburbs of Baytown and La Porte during the afternoon rush hour, creating a vacuum inside a traffic-filled tunnel and killing one driver whose car was tossed over a 20-foot concrete wall. Police said a rash of accidents also injured four persons as their cars left the tunnel. The twister was one of several that dipped from thick rain clouds over Texas during the day. Two planes were destroyed at the Gainesville Airport and a two-block area of Beaumont was heavily damaged. No injuries were reported there. Meanwhile, record cold chilled the Northeast and a snowstorm piled up a foot of snow on the Colorado Rockies.
The American Medical Association’s board of trustees has recommended ending the group’s controversial practice of accepting advertising for its publications. The proposal, to be voted on by the house of delegates next month, is designed mainly to show independence from drug companies, according to Dr. James H. Sammons, executive vice president. But he also said the cost of getting and producing advertising had been outpacing the revenue of $9 million it brings in. The AMA would have to make up “something like” $3 million to keep on publishing and that sum would come from a dues increase from $110 to $200 a year-that also has been recommended.
A man accused in the $4.3 million burglary of an Armored Express Corp. vault in Chicago was ordered held in lieu of a $400,000 cash bond. The man, Ralph Marrera, 31, a security guard, was on duty when the burglary apparently occurred October 20. In related developments, two more suspects in connection with the theft were among five persons indicted in connection with a stolen goods ring and another suspect, Charles Marzano, was charged with obtaining an Illinois driver’s license for unlawful use. The two connected with the stolen goods ring were identified as Peter J. Gushi, 47, and James Maniatis, 53. They were arrested shortly after the indictment.
The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the state’s prostitution laws against the challenge of a woman who claimed she was discriminated against because of her sex. Charlotte Devall had argued in a Baton Rouge court that she could not be prosecuted because only women, and not men, are forbidden from engaging in sex for pay. But the Supreme Court concluded that “lawmakers are constitutionally free to exclude male prostitution from the coverage of legislation on the reasonable basis that it does not constitute a social problem.”
More than half of Seattle’s residents have unsafe levels of carbon monoxide in their bloodstreams, the Northwest administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency said. Clifford V. Smith said samples taken from Seattle blood donors indicated carbon monoxide levels high enough to cause drowsiness, reduce mental alertness and blur vision. He coupled his statistics with a call for a periodic automobile emission inspection program.
Environmentalists are protesting an Army plan to kill 14 million blackbirds this winter by spraying them with a chemical that will cause them to freeze to death. The Environmental Defense Fund threatened to take the Army to court because it says an environmental impact statement should be filed. The Pentagon said the project was necessary because huge flocks of the birds in pine forests near Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, pose hazards to human health, aviation and farm crops.
The U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
Westpark Mustard, a racing greyhound dog, set a record when she made her 20th consecutive win in racing. Westpark Mustard broke the record of 19 in a row set by Mick the Miller in 1930. Coincidentally, her 20th win came in the Mick the Miller Record Stakes. Westpark Mustard lost the next race she ran, ending her streak at 20.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Atlanta Falcons 17, Pittsburgh Steelers 24
With Terry Bradshaw back at quarterback and Franco Harris rushing for 141 yards and the winning touchdown, the Pittsburgh Steelers posted a 24–17 victory over the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League tonight. Bradshaw, in his first start since being deposed by Joe Gilliam in the exhibition season, brought the Steelers’ ground game out of mothballs, as Harris rushed for more than 100 yards for the first time this season. Harris’s 7‐yard touchdown run nine seconds into the final quarter made the score 24–14. The Steelers held on to record their fifthy victory against one loss and one tie, and their lead in the American Conference’s Central Division to 1½ games over Cincinnati. The Falcons fell to 2–6. The 55‐yard drive for the winning touchdown included a 49‐yard pass from Bradshaw to Barris and a 10‐yard run by Rocky Bleier, who piled up 79 yards rushing.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 633.84 (-2.35, -0.37%).
Born:
Joaquin Phoenix [born Joaquin Rafael Bottom and also billed as Leaf Phoenix], American film actor (“Gladiator”, “Walk the Line”, “The Master”), in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Braden Looper, Team USA and MLB pitcher (Olympic bronze medal, 1996; World Series Champions, 2003-Marlins, 2006-Cardinals; St. Louis Cardinals, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers), in Weatherford, Oklahoma.
Henri Crockett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Minnesota Vikings), in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer; in Cania, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
Died:
Louis Saillant, 73, French trade unionist and Resistance fighter, former general secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), died of a heart attack.
Walter David Jones CH, CBE, 78, Welsh painter and modernist poet known for In Parenthesis and The Anathemata.
Everaldo Marques da Silva, Brazilian footballer with 24 caps for the World Cup-winning national team from 1967 to 1972, was killed in a car accident.
[Ed: Bradshaw had a crazy year in 1974. It began with him being benched. It ended with hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.]
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