When Secretary of State Kissinger arrives in Rome Tuesday for the opening of the World Food Conference, he is expected to propose the establishment of a world food council working directly for the Secretary General of the United Nations. A draft of his speech indicates that Mr. Kissinger is not expected to propose much authority for such a council beyond overseeing the activities of four groups of technical experts dealing with food aid, trade, production and reserves. Whether Mr. Kissinger’s proposal will provide the leadership for the Rome conference is a matter of disagreement within the Ford administration.
The U.N. General Assembly has called for withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cyprus and the safe return of all the island’s refugees to their homes. It ended a weeklong debate in adopting by a vote of 117 to 0 a compromise resolution acceptable to both Greeks and Turks. The assembly also urged continued negotiations between the two Cypriot communities for a final political settlement.
A Portuguese government delegation in Moscow won a qualified pledge from President Nikolai V. Podgorny of Soviet assistance for the country’s faltering economy and a promise of all-around cooperation. The main aim of the visit was believed to be laying groundwork for a future trade and economic pact. But the Soviet president, according to the news agency Tass, hinted that Portugal — under a left-leaning government since April — might not get all that it wanted.
Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin took a moderate line toward China today in a speech emphasizing Moscow’s objective to extend “the process of detente totne all areas of the world.”
The American Broadcasting Co. and the Soviet State Committee for Television and Radio announced a wide-ranging exchange of programs. A joint statement described the agreement as general, but said that it would result in news, sports and entertainment programs originating both in the Soviet Union and the United States.
The historic Jagiełło Oak tree in Poland, standing 128 feet (39 m) tall and 210 inches (5,300 mm) in circumference, was blown down in a storm.
Yasir Abed Rabbo, information chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said in Beirut that the “primary duty” of the Arab states was to prepare themselves militarily and economically to face a new war with Israel. He said there was no hope for a peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict so long as Israel and the United States refused to include the Palestinian national movement in negotiations.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran and Secretary of State Kissinger discussed the oil crisis for more than four hours in Tehran and agreed that the oil-producing countries and the industrialized consumer nations must cooperate to prevent world disorder stemming from inflation. They hinted that Iran would seek to keep prices from rising again next month when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meets in Vienna.
The Rev. Trần Hữu Thành, the Roman Catholic priest in the vanguard of the opposition to President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, said that his supporters were planning a week of protests throughout South Vietnam against the “hooligan” tactics of the government. Father Thành, who was roughed up during street fighting last week, said the protests would begin tomorrow.
Seventy-eight die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started. The police said that at least 78 persons had been killed and 40 others injured in the three‐hour blaze at the Daewang Building. The fire broke out about 2:50 AM. Rescue workers first announced a death toll of only 10. Later, however, they found other bodies on the sixth floor, where a “go‐go” club and a hotel were situated. Some of the victims were killed instantly when they leaped from upper stories, but many others died of inhalation of toxic gas, firemen said.
The Federation of Christian Students of Korea, demanding a more democratic rule in South Korea, said it would oppose President Ford’s visit November 22–23 if it served “to confirm the current ruling system.” In a declaration, it said: “There prevail in this country at this time violations of human rights and a policy of suppression.” The declaration was adopted as more colleges decided to close temporarily to prevent further student demonstrations.
George Bush, the new chief of the United States liaison office in China, met with Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping in Peking today, a Chinese broadcast said. The session was Mr. Bush’s first reported meeting with a top Chinese leader since he succeeded David K. E. Bruce as America’s chief diplomatic representative in Peking. The official Hsinhua press agency gave no details of the discussion but said that Chiao Kuan‐hua and Wang Hai‐jung, both Deputy Foreign Ministers also attended. Secretary of State Kissinger is scheduled to visit China by the end of the year, and Mr. Bush’s meeting may have been connected with arrangements fort that visit. Before going to Peking last month, Mr. Bush said he hoped to speed up progress in stalemated cultural and trade
Three weeks ago a respected monthly magazine published an article alleging financial irregularities by Premier Kakuei Tanaka that has touched off a lively controversy among Japanese. But Japan’s leading newspapers, which have a combined circulation or more than 25 largely ignored the subject until foreign correspondents questioned Mr. Tanaka about the matter at a luncheon on October 23. Even now, despite the fact that Bungei Shunju, the magazine that published the article, sold out its 700,000 copies, no Japanese paper has carried a follow‐up article with more information. Nor, so far as can be learned, has any Japanese newsman questioned Premier Tanaka or his deputies about the allegations of corruption. The newspapers’ failure to pursue the matter, in the view of knowledgeable Japanese, is a consequence of the close ties between politicians and the press in Japan and offers an insight into Japanese political morality.
Japan and Australia announced plans to build a joint uranium processing plant in the arid Australian Northern Territory, which holds about a quarter of the world’s known uranium reserves. The announcement that a feasibility study will be undertaken by both countries was given in a communique at the end of two days of talks in Canberra between Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and his Australian counterpart, Gough Whitlam.
Firefighting units from two Montreal suburbs were called in today to help fight a blaze at a downtown hotel as a strike by 2,400 firefighters continued into its second day. Units from Westmount and Dollard des Ormeaux assisted 40 city fire chiefs and supervisors in bringing the blaze at the LaSalle Hotel under control within an hour this afternoon.
Cuba has endorsed a Mexican and Argentine proposal to form a cartel of Latin American sugar-producing countries, according to dispatches from Havana published in Mexico City newspapers. Jamaica, Panama and Guatemala have already given their support to the idea, according to the dispatches.
Uruguay leftist opposition leader Liber Seregni has been given “provisional liberty” after 16 months under arrest in an army installation but will “continue at the disposition of military justice,” army commanders said. Seregni, an ex-general, came in third against President Juan Maria Bordaberry in elections three years ago. Bordaberry assumed dictatorial powers with military backing last year. Seregni had been accused of covering up attacks against the constitution.
Chilean-born British stockbroker William Beausire, who had dual citizenship in both the UK and Chile, was kidnapped by the Argentina Federal Police while he was at the Ezeiza International Airport at Buenos Aires, where he was scheduled to board a flight to Paris. Beausire was turned over to the Chilean secret police, the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), where he was tortured. He was last seen in public on July 2, 1975, and became one of the thousands of “desaparecidos” who disappeared during the Pinochet regime in Chile.
General Idi Amin’s father, Dada Amin, has fled from Uganda in fear that his life is in danger there and has taken refuge in Zaire. A prominent Ugandan close to Amin also said that the Ugandan president is no longer on speaking terms with his three sisters and brother. The family division is said to be the culmination of events following the murder of Amin’s wife, Kay.
The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development called in Dakar, Senegal yesterday for continued food aid for the sub‐Saharan famine despite improved rainfall and better harvests this year. Speaking before leaving for New York at the end of a week‐long tour of the region, Daniel S. Parker said the effect of years of drought persisted. Needs were felt particularly in the medical and nutritional areas, he added. The United States was ready to respond to the needs of the sub‐Saharan countries with aid for their short and long‐term drought‐relief program, Mr. Parker said. He added that he had given assurances to this effect to the leaders of the countries he visited.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.
Two years after a sweeping presidential victory, the Republican party is braced for another harsh consequence of Watergate in in the elections Tuesday. At stake are all 435 House seats, 34 Senate seats and 35 governorships. In each of these categories, Democrats are now favored to win somewhat more than the normal midterm gains for the party out of the White House. The prospect is all the more unusual because in each category the Democrats would be broadening big majorities that survived President Nixon’s landslide re-election.
Voters who will be going to the polls Tuesday are angry. They have been telling politicians and reporters and poll-takers for weeks that they are angry — about high prices, about Watergate, about the presidential pardon, about the loss of their jobs. Senator Walter Mondale, Minnesota Democrat, who has been touring the country on behalf of his party, says that he has “never heard as much resentment and frustration.”
Negotiators for the coal industry and the miners’ union labored haltingly in Washington over a new contract to prevent a potentially disruptive strike, now believed only days away. A breakdown in talks Friday night brought stronger intervention by federal mediators, and bargaining talks resumed this afternoon.
The latest bulletin from former President Richard Nixon’s physician sounded more encouraging, but the physician, Dr. John Lungren, said Mr. Nixon still remained “under critical care” for complications resulting from surgery for phlebitis last Tuesday. Mr. Nixon has begun eating again, his bleeding seems to have stopped and his vital signs “are stable and satisfactory,” Dr. Lungren said.
The Secret Service, under legislation that took effect last summer, has been given the responsibility for financing so-called “security” improvements or alterations that it requests for private Presidential dwellings outside of Washington.
Voters in New Jersey will be asked to vote yes or no in a referendum proposing legalized casino gambling in the state. Those for and against casino gambling will begin a last-ditch effort tomorrow to convince undecided voters of the relative merits of their positions, with law enforcement officials sharply divided on how organized crime might affect or be affected by legalized gambling. Opponents of the proposal are hoping for strong opposition to be generated by church sermons across the state, while those in favor of are starting an intensive radio advertising campaign.
A jury in Nashville found two men guilty of first-degree murder in the slayings of Grand Ole Opry star David (Stringbean) Akeman and his wife, Estelle, last November. John A. Brown Jr., 24, and his cousin Marvin Douglas Brown, 24, both of Greenbrier, Tennessee, were sentenced to 99-year prison terms. Akeman and his wife were shot to death when they returned to their modest country home north of Nashville after an Opry performance. A policeman testified that the brother of one of the defendants had known that Akeman was carrying a large sum of money a few days before he was killed.
The trans-Alaska pipeline’s estimated cost has risen a staggering $5 billion over the original estimate of $900 million five years ago. An executive of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of eight oil companies that is building the line, blamed inflation, escalating salaries and the soaring cost of steel for the new price tag of $5.98 billion. “We think we now have a good handle on what things are going to cost us,” he said. “This is a large, tremendously huge project and we are suffering the effects of inflation.”
In an atmosphere of gathering pesimism, negotators for the coal industry and miners union labored haltingly over the weekend to avert a potentially disruptive strike. The negotiators met late this afternoon for an hour and then parted amicably after agreeing to meet‐tomorrow at 11 AM. The talks broke down last night, and Federal mediators moved in openly this morning. However, W. J. Usery Jr., the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said that the negotiations were becoming “harder and harder.” They are at a critical stage,” he said. “The issues get harder and harder as you get down near the end. You have your ups and downs, and they just got to a point last night where they either wouldn’t or couldn’t make progress.”
Up to $75.6 billion extra could be paid by American consumers by 1980 if President Ford’s proposal to remove price controls on natural gas were approved, a government report estimated. The report said little evidence existed that price rises would help increase production of natural gas, as proponents of deregulation have contended. The report was prepared at the request of Rep. John E. Moss (D-California), chairman of the House commerce and finance subcommittee, who said he would introduce legislation to roll. back prices on gasoline and fuel oil when Congress reconvened in January. He said oil companies were making “skyrocketing profits.”
Cheap charter flight rates for members of so-called affinity groups may be abolished under new regulations proposed by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The CAB said affinity charters — supposed to be made up of persons associated with a club or firm for at least six months — had been subject to widespread misuse, and it proposed that such flights be cut off March 31, 1975. The board said it was considering two new charter categories, one combining air fare with ground accommodations and one providing transportation to special events only.
Some airline pilots conceal serious diseases, such as alcoholism, by seeking out certified doctors willing to wink at their problems, the Detroit News reported. The newspaper said the Federal Aviation Administration’s chief air surgeon, Dr. Peter V. Siegel, had quit after trying for three years to make commercial airlines responsible for examinations of their own pilots. The News said Siegel had found evidence that some among the 7,000 FAA-licensed aviation medical examiners were lax in giving examinations.
Chlorination may be producing potentially cancer-causing chemicals in drinking water, the Environmental Protection Agency reported. The agency said there was no cause for alarm, although it had begun a nationwide investigation to determine how widespread the problem was. “Our scientists are investigating the possibility of certain chemicals showing up in water systems that may be carcinogenic,” or cancer-causing, EPA spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. EPA studies have found very small concentrations of chloroform and carbon tetrachloride in the chlorinated drinking water of Cincinnati and New Orleans.
Goaded by the publication of unauthorized editions of his early, previously uncollected stories, J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author who is obsessed with maintaining his privacy, broke a silence of more than 20 years to denounce the publication of “The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of Salinger, Vols. 1-2.” Mr. Salinger, who became the object of cultish devotion following publication of “The Catcher in the Rye” in 1950, said in a telephone interview that he was at work on other books that may never be published in his lifetime.
The Atlanta Braves trade Hank Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May and a minor league pitcher to be named later. Aaron will finish his Major League career in Milwaukee, where he started it in 1954.
Meanwhile, in an exhibition at Korakuen Stadium in Japan, Hank Aaron, the home run king of American baseball, and Sadaharu Oh, his Japanese counterpart, square off for a home run derby. Aaron wins 10–9.
Born:
Nelly (stage name of Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.), American rapper; in Austin, Texas.
Prodigy [Albert Johnson], American rapper (Mobb Deep), in Hempstead, Long Island, New York (d. 2017).
Orlando Cabrera, Colombian MLB shortstop and second baseman (World Series Champions-Red Sox, 2004; Gold Glove Award 2001, 2007; Montreal Expos; Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox, Oakland A’s, Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants), in Cartagena, Colombia.
José Fernández, Dominican designated hitter, third baseman, and first baseman (Montreal Expos, Anaheim Angels), in La Vega, Dominican Republic
Ruslan Salei, Belarusian National Team and NHL defenceman (Olympics, 1998, 2002, 2010; 917 NHL games; Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Florida Panthers, Colorado Avalnche, Detroit Red Wings), in Minsk, Byelorussian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 2011, in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash).
Kedra Holland-Corn, WNBA guard (WNBA Champions-Shock, 2003, 2006; Sacramento Monarchs, Detroit Shock, Houston Comets), in Houston, Texas.
Alex Tanaka, American actor (Saja-“Swan’s Crossing”), in Huntington, New York.
Aleksey Shevchenkov, Russian stage and film actor (“Tourist and The Red Ghost). in Chernyakhovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
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Nelson “Jack” Edwards, 57, the first African-American vice president of the United Auto Workers, was shot and killed while trying to break up an argument at a West Side Detroit bar.
[Ed: Yes. you’re a Loser; We Know.]
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