The Warsaw Pact nations submitted additional proposals on East-West troop reductions but Western sources said they contained little new. The Western sources said the proposals — submitted on the first anniversary of the Vienna negotiations — would not meet Western needs, though they were “more coherent” than previous hints of compromise. The proposals did not abandon basic Warsaw Pact demands, but would allow initial cuts by the 11 participants to be staggered instead of simultaneous.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson told his ministers today that they must either promise to refrain from public criticism of government actions or resign. Mr. Wilson’s anger, directed at the left wing of the Labor party, followed last night’s resolution by the party’s National Executive condemning a recent visit by Royal Navy ships to South Africa. A number of ministers, including Mr. Wilson, are members of the executive. Mr. Wilson and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan had left the executive meeting when the resolution was introduced by Ian Mikardo, chairman of the Parliamentary Labor party and a leading left winger. Efforts by several ministers to soften the resolution were defeated by a large majority.
A self-sufficient house complete with a rooftop windmill — called an aerogenerator — to provide electricity and solar panels to trap the sun’s heat will be built at the British government’s expense to help overcome the energy crisis, it was disclosed in London. The house, the brainchild of Cambridge University scientists and architects, will also feature a rainwater collection system, sun-powered water purifier and recycling equipment and a “sewage digester” that will use human and kitchen waste to produce methane gas for cooking.”
France reaffirmed her refusal today to adhere to the six‐year‐old treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear Weapons to new nations. Addressing the Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, Pierre‐Christian Taittinger, vice president of the French Senate, said that the treaty was “discriminatory, fallacious, illusory, and ultimately inefficacious.” Mr. Taittinger quoted President Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s pledge that France would resort to nuclear arms only to defend herself against other nuclear nations, or against powers that menaced French soil.
France’s three main unions issued a joint statement threatening a general strike if their campaign to boost workers’ purchasing power and maintain employment levels does not succeed. The nation’s two-week-old postal strike, meanwhile, showed signs of impact on major industry as well as crippling many small businesses. Peugeot, a car manufacturer, said it would lay off 400 workers for a day next week because the strike had cut off the flow of orders.
At stake at a trial in Bordeaux, France, is international confidence in French wines. The mystique surrounding the wines of France has been partly stripped away by testimony of experts in a sensational trial involving four million bottles labeled as red Bordeaux. There are charges of doctoring wine and falsifying documents.
General Vito Miceli, former head of the Italian secret service, has been arrested on a charge of political conspiracy, police said in Rome. Miceli, 58, head of the secret service from October, 1970, until July of this year, was warned by magistrates last week that he faced charges of withholding information about an attempted right-wing coup by Prince Valerio Borghese in December, 1970. The coup was called off after 50 neo-fascists had succeeded in entering the Interior Ministry.
General Francisco Franco swore in Leon Herrera and Rafael Cabello respectively as ministers of information and finance. The previous information chief was dismissed by Premier Carlos Arias Navarro who reportedly thought he had given too much freedom to the press. The finance minister resigned in protest. The premier said the Spanish government’s liberalization program would remain intact but sources said new guidelines warned against publicizing activities of outlawed parties. A Roman Catholic political group said the liberalization policy had ended.
Dutch officials were jubilant today over the dawn rescue of 15 hostages held by four convicts in a chapel at Scheveningen Prison.
The initial flight of the IAR-93 Vultur, the first jet fighter aircraft produced entirely in Romania, was made by Colonel Gheorghe Stănică, who took off from Bacău and landed again after a 21-minute test fiight.
Israeli and United States military analysts say they believe Israel’s military position has worsened appreciably as a result of the decision by King Hussein of Jordan and other Arab leaders to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization as “the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
American, Soviet, French and Egyptian demolition experts have nearly completed clearing the Suez Canal of live mines and sunken ships left from the 1967 Middle East war, an Egyptian official said. Mashour Ahmed Mashour, chief of the canal authority, predicted the canal. would be open to international shipping early next year.
A cigarette ignited a bag of fireworks aboard an express train in northern India, causing an explosion and fire that killed 52 people.
U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger assured Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto today that the United States would continue to back “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a strong, secure and prosperous Pakistan.”
About 75 civilians and policemen were believed to have been injured when, for the first time since the opposition to President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu of South Vietnam took to the street two months ago, confrontations between riot policemen and anti-government demonstrators turned violent. The police abandoned their policy of leniency and attacked the demonstrators in an outlying neighborhood of Saigon, inhabited by Roman Catholics who fled North Vietnam. Two opposition Deputies were seriously hurt in the clashes. In addition, a Roman Catholic priest was knocked to the ground and bloodied and the Rev. Trần Hữu Thành, the priest who forged a successful anticorruption front, was punched in the face and his eyeglasses were broken.
It was unclear why the police had abandoned their seemingly successful hands‐off policy toward demonstrations to raid the National Press Club in downtown Saigon unexpectedly Wednesday night. Some Vietnamese speculated that Mr. Thiệu, having already made some major concessions to his opponents, probably felt no need to let them parade around Saigon and denounce him. Others suggested that the police might have simply overreacted. In a tough speech today to mark the 11th anniversary of the overthrow of President Ngô Đình Diệm, Mr. Thiệu appealed to the Vietnamese people to reject his opponents, who he charged were opportunists, “lackeys” of the Communists or unwittingly duped by them. “The government will preserve security and public order to the maximum and effectively protect the life and property of the people,” the President declared in a nationwide radio broadcast.
Scientists in Asia are confident that rice harvests can increase faster than the needs of a rice-dependent population, which is expected to double by the year 2000. Their confidence is based on a revolution in rice-growing techniques that continue to spread in Asia, offering what they see as the only way of escape from an agriculture of mere survival. Their optimism, however, is questioned by observers of the rice-growing tropics.
Rumors of the death of Liu Shao-chi, who was purged as China’s chief of state during the Cultural Revolution, have been confirmed by a statement in the English-language edition of a Chinese Communist paper in Hong Kong to the effect that Liu Shao-chi was “dead physically as well as politically.” No details of his death were given.
Premier Kakuei Tanaka of Japan arrived in Canberra tonight to begin a six-day visit to Australia to cement relations and promote trade with Japan’s major supplier of raw materials.
The Inter-American Press Association asked President Ford to identify the Chilean newspapers that allegedly received financial assistance from the Central Intelligence Agency during the Allende regime. The IAPA said the information was needed “so the good name of innocent newspapers can be cleared. Mr. Ford has said that the CIA assisted the preservation of opposition papers and electronic media during the Marxist regime of President Salvador Allende.
African delegates said today they might ask the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution deploring yesterday’s vetoes of a Security Council motion calling for the expulsion of South Africa from the United Nations.
Former President Richard M. Nixon’s doctors said late today that they expected gradual improvement in his condition, but that they remained concerned over postoperative complications and “dangers lurking in the background.” Doctors in Long Beach, California, said that former President Nixon was “alert” and “spent a more restful night.” But Mr. Nixon’s condition remained critical following complications that developed from surgery for phlebitis. Dr. John Lungren, Mr. Nixon’s physician, said that “his spirits and mental attitude are excellent. He is alert, oriented to everything going on around him and cooperative.”
The administration launched an attack on high food prices, especially price gouging. An Agriculture Department report showed that raw farm prices increased 4%. Treasury Secretary William Simon spoke about this.
Simon ordered public hearings on rising sugar prices. He also called for a full report regarding sagging farm prices and higher grocery bills. Simon stated that the spread between farm and retail prices is expected to increase 21%, and America cannot permit one part of the economy to be enriched at the expense of others. Simon predicted a reduction in foreign oil prices, and said he feels that economists will say the U.S. is in a recession.
Defense lawyers questioned Jeb Stuart Magruder vigorously today in an apparent effort to shake the account he gave yesterday about the Watergate cover-up.
The Civil Aeronautics Board authorized the nation’s airlines to raise domestic air fares by 4 percent November 15 and made permanent a 6 percent surcharge imposed on travelers last spring as an emergency measure to offset increased fuel bills. The surcharge had been scheduled to expire tonight. The agency’s decision was attacked as inflationary and unwarranted by consumer spokesmen.
President Ford summoned the top negotiators for the coal industry to the White House today to receive an updated report on efforts to avert a miners’ strike, which could begin in nine days. The news he got was guarded but good.
New York City Controller Harrison Goldin, expressing “serious concern” over the widening gap between the city’s spending and revenues, warned in his annual report on financial situation that the city cannot continue to close the gaps with ever larger and more expensive borrowings. Wall Street sources said that Mr. Goldin’s concern grows from increasing reluctance of banking and brokerage syndicates to underwrite the city’s bond and notes.
In the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, American optician Ronald Clark O’Bryan murdered his 8-year-old son Timothy with cyanide-laced Halloween candy for $40,000 in life insurance money. O’Bryan also provided the poisoned candy to his daughter and 3 other children, none of whom ate it. O’Bryan himself would be poisoned in an execution by lethal injection in 1984.
Testimony ended today in a hearing to determine whether James Earl Ray should be given a new trial in the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mr. Ray has contended that he was treated unfairly by the state and by his defense attorneys before he pleaded guilty to murder in March, 1969.
National Guard troops, called up three weeks ago because of violence in Boston schools, will be cut back by two-thirds starting next week, a guard spokesman said. Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent, the spokesman said, had ordered the number reduced from 450 to 150 beginning Sunday. The violence broke out when 80 of 200 schools opened September 12 under a short-term desegregation plan. Many whites in the south Boston area boycotted the schools in protest of the court-ordered busing. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity now has signed an order requiring the school board to draw up a desegregation plan that includes “all grades in all schools in all parts of the city.”
The government disclosed plans to determine the relative risk of severe complications in wearers of each model of intrauterine device. The project will involve thousands of women in 15 to 20 hospital centers, will take three years and will cost $500,000. Dr. Philip A. Corfman, director of the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said that of the estimated 8.8 million IUDs sold in the country since 1966, more than 3 million were believed to be in use. Yet, said Corfman, the precise rate of severe complications is not known, although it is assumed to be infrequent.
The FBI rounded up the last suspects in the record $4.3 million burglary of the Armored Express Corp. in Chicago, shepherding two deported men back to the United States from the British West Indies and arresting another in Chicago. Agents said only “dribs and drabs” of the loot had been recovered. Authorities said $26,000 was found on two key suspects, Pasquel Charles (Patsy) Marzano and Luigi Michael DiFonzo, when they were seized on Grand Cayman Island as they prepared to flee to Costa Rica. William A. Marzano, a cousin of Pasquel, surrendered to authorities during the day to complete the roundup.
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph A. Hearst withdrew today the $50,000 reward they had offered for the safe return of their daughter, Patricia. The announcement came a week after Mickey Cohen, a onetime underworld figure, reported that Miss Hearst was in Cleveland and that he had discussed with her parents the possibility of returning her “by force.” Miss Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment February 4, announced on tape recordings that she was joining her captors and subsequently was charged with nearly two dozen state and Federal crimes. “We love Patricia and have complete faith in her,” the Hearsts’ statement said. “We want more than anything else for her to return to our home on to any kind of lifestyle of her own choosing.” They said the reward was withdrawn because they felt their daughter might misinterpret it and remain in hiding.
A sheriff’s deputy was killed and three other police officers were wounded by an escaping prisoner who grabbed a gun and started shooting as he fled from the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita, Kansas. Police said the prisoner, who snatched the weapon from a detective as he was being taken into the courthouse, was recaptured three hours later. Killed was Vance Johnson. The prisoner was identified as Fred L. Keeling, 30, who was being held on robbery and kidnapping charges when the shootings occurred.
A suit to halt logging that allegedly threatens giant trees in California’s Redwood National Park was filed in Humboldt County Superior Court. The attorney general’s office charged that erosion and landslides caused by the logging in the Redwood Creek area constitute the danger.
Leaders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America announced today plans for nationwide union demonstrations on November 11 to protest the increasing volume of clothing being imported from low-wage countries.
Important advances are being made against cancer, the director of the national cancer program said in his 1974 report to the President, but he cautioned that there is little prospect of any sudden conquest of all forms of the disease.
Accumulating evidence indicates that three of the huge outer planets in the solar system-Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune—radiate more heat into space than they receive from the sun.
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Born:
Jeff Gooch, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions), in Nashville, Tennessee.
DeShone Myles, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks, New Orleans Saints), in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Steve Cox, MLB first baseman and outfielder (Tampa Bay Devil Rays), in Delano, California.
Fred Perpall, Bahamas-born African-American architect and businessman, CEO of The Beck Group since 2013, and president of the United States Golf Association since 2023; in Nassau, Bahamas.
Natasja Saad, Danish singer and rap artist; in Copenhagen (killed in car accident, 2007)
Died:
Mikheil Chiaureli, 80, Soviet Georgian filmmaker known for directing “The Fall of Berlin.”
Mordecai Ezekiel, 75, American agrarian economist.
Buddy Myer (born Charles Solomon Myer), 70, American Major League Baseball second baseman, 1935 American League batting champion.
Maxwell Reed, 55, Northern Irish actor, died of cancer.
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