British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labor government passed its first parliamentary test since October 10 elections by defeating 310 to 296 a Conservative opposition motion in the House of Commons attacking the government’s “disastrous proposals” to nationalize aircraft, shipbuilding and offshore oil industries. Although Labor has a majority of only three votes, the 14-vote margin was achieved by abstentions by Scot and Welsh nationalists and Ulster unionists.
A 25-year-old English woman, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was convicted of murdering 12 persons by bombing an army bus in Yorkshire last February, thus becoming one of Britain’s most notorious mass slayers. Judith Teresa Ward received 12 life sentences, to run concurrently, for the murders and 20 years in prison for causing the explosion.
Formal negotiations opened in Madrid for the renewal of a 20-year-old agreement granting the United States the use of four naval and air bases in Spain. Sources close to the government said Spain was expected to ask the United States to conclude a formal security treaty in exchange for continued use of the bases. Robert McCloskey, U.S. chief negotiator and ambassador at large, met with Juan Jose Rovira, the Spanish undersecretary of state, at the Foreign Ministry.
France faced the threat of power cuts in the capital as more than half the country’s fuel oil merchants began an unlimited strike. A continuing postal strike, also affecting telephone and telex networks, caused the United States and other nations to embargo mail addressed to France. Rail services around Paris may be disrupted by workers seeking higher pay. And about 15,000 veterinarians struck against plans to form an auxiliary veterinary corps and sell animal medicines in supermarkets.
Representatives of more than 100 nations gathered in Rome where they will start planning tomorrow the most ambitious attack ever made against the worldwide problem of hunger and the growing threat of famine. They are members of the United Nations-sponsored World Food Conference. Heavy security measures were in effect as Secretary of State Kissinger arrived to speak at the conference, which was called at his suggestion to cope with the worldwide problem of hunger and the growing threat of famine. Policemen lined the streets around the Secretary’s hotel. Bombs have gone off at American‐affiliated concerns here for the last three nights and leaflets have been distributed connecting Mr. Kissinger with the overthrow last year of the Chilean Governinent of President Salvador Allende Gossens.
Secretary of State Kissinger, seeking to prevent a cutoff in American military aid to Turkey next month, announced today that he would wind up his current trip with two days of talks on the Cyprus crisis with Turkish officials in Ankara. Newsmen aboard Mr. Kissinger’s Air Force 707 jet were led to believe that the purpose of the visit, set for Friday night and Saturday, was to discuss with Premier Bulent Ecevit how to get negotiations started with Greece and the Greek and Turkish Cypriotes. The formal announcement, which was not unexpected, was made aboard Mr. Kissinger’s plane this morning when it left Bucharest for Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he spent several hours holding fence‐mending talks with President Tito and other officials.
Congress voted last month to deprive Turkey of all military aid after December 10 unless President Ford certifies that she is not using American‐supplied weapons for aggressive purposes and that substantial progress has been made toward an agreement on the military forces on Cyprus. About 40,000 Turkish troops are estimated to occupy about a third of the island. Mr. Kissinger has strongly opposed the restrictions, arguing that a cutoff in aid might lead Turkey to renounce her ties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In a pessimistic viewpoint often described to newsmen, Turkey would then become a major supporter of the Arab cause and make it difficult for Israel in case of another war.
Most Greek and Greek Cypriot leaders agree that the only feasible solution in the Cyprus problem would be to divide the island into separate but federated regions, part administered by the ethnic Turks and the rest by the ethnic Greeks. They are not ready to endorse the concept publicly because they do not want to concede major bargaining chip in negotiations with the Turkish side. Nor do they want to stir up their political opponents at home, particularly before the Greek parliamentary election November 17. Moreover, the Greek side would ratify a geographic division of Cyprus only under cerfain conditions, including return guarantee that most if not all refugees would be allowed to return home. The Greeks also want to make sure that the Turkish side is committed to a federation that preserves the independence of Cyprus and gives the central Government well‐defined powers. Their fear is that the Turks would agree to a federation as a guise for partition, with the Turkish sector virtually anflexed to mainland Turkey.
Israel banished four Palestinian activists to Lebanon today as part of a crackdown on pro-guerrilla agitation in Israeli‐occupied territories. The four were said to have solicited support for the Palestine Liberation Organization and to have been involved in terrorist acts against Israelis and Arab moderates. They were identified as Ali Mahmud al‐Khatib, editor of Al Shaah, a Jerusalem, newspaper, Dr. Mustafa Hasan. Milhim, deputy mayor of Halhul; Isam Bala Fatah, an engineer, of Nablus, and Daoud Arikat, a Jericho farmer. An official announcement said the four had been active in the “Palestinian National Front,” which military sources here characterized as a “terrorist organization that has perpetrated acts of murder and terrorism.” The four were also said to have been responsible for a petition circulated in the occupied areas, calling for support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the over‐all guerrilla grouping.
Israeli forces raided a village in southern Lebanon during the night and blew up a house that they charged harbored Arab guerrillas, the military command announced. No casualties were reported. The action occurred at Majdal‐el‐Zoon, five miles north of the border, not far from the Israeli settlement of Adamit. It was the second time in four days that Israeli soldiers have been known to cross the border to blow up houses believed to have harbored guerrillas. Last week a group of soldiers crossed into Blida, farther east, and blew up two houses there, charging they had harbored guerrillas shot dead in an ambush the day before.
King Hussein said in an interview in Amman that Jordan intends to redraft her Constitution, and reorganize her cabinet and Parliament to remove Palestinian representatives living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He said he would offer the 800,000 Palestinians living east of the Jordan River a choice between Jordanian and Palestinian citizenship in the near future. These steps were described by King Hussein as the minimum necessary to give meaning to the decision of the Rabat summit conference that named the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestinian people.
New Delhi and Patna, capital of India’s state of Bihar, were paralyzed by anti-government general strikes called by the People’s Struggle Association, which seeks to make government more representative of popular demands and to end corruption. More than 400 persons were arrested in New Delhi. The protest movement is styled after passive resistance methods of the late independence leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi.
A private group of American Quakers has begun to provide what is believed to be the first aid from the United States to the Communist‐led Pathet Lao. The American Friends Service Committee, which has already given humanitarian assistance to an sides in the Indochina war, recently donated three portable sawmills to the Pathet Lao and conducted a two‐month course in operation and maintenance. “It was the first time they had ever worked with Americans,” said Martin Teitel, the committee’s Indochina director, who is based in Vientiane. “To us the human contact was more important than the sawmills.”
China accused the Soviet Union today of seeking “to masquerade itself as the standard brearer of nuclear disarmament while accelerating its atomic weapons development. An Chih‐yuan, the Chinese delegate, ridiculed as “hypocritical propaganda” Soviet statements and proposals for disarmament made in the General Assebly’s Political Committee. He said: “To date, who has ever seen, the Soviet Union reduce from its stockpiles a single warship, a single tank or a single nuclear warhead?”
The United States urged Japanese delegates to a Pacific Ocean fisheries meeting at Seattle to adopt a position of restraint in high-seas net fishing so depleted salmon stocks can be restored. Robert Shoning, head of the American delegation, said the United States feels a “sharp reduction of the total fishing effort” is necessary to conserve fish resources in the Pacific. He added that the U.S. position is that salmon should not be taken by nets in the high seas and should be fished only in national waters.
From 40 to 100 Montreal families are without homes as a result of weekend fires which striking firemen refused to fight. Unanswered alarms left several blocks of tenement housing burned to the ground, although no deaths or major injuries were reported. Relief centers were set up for persons whose homes burned during the strike for higher pay by 2,400 members of the Montreal Fire Fighters’ Association. The firemen did not return to their jobs until a settlement was reached Sunday morning.
Chilean authorities have arrested the sister of the late President Salvador Allende because of her alleged involvement with the outlawed Movement of the Revolutionary Left, the Interior Ministry said. It said Mrs. Laura Allende Pascal, 60, was arrested at her home after a gunfight in which an MIR leader was killed. Four hand grenades were found in her house along with documents showing she was aiding MIR members, the ministry said.
Predictions of an unusually low turnout — of possibly fewer than two in every five registered voters — added a final measure of uncertainty in national elections tomorrow. In a campaign year when so much has gone wrong for Republicans, experts in both major parties estimated a light vote of the sort Republicans often pray for would prove still another Watergate bonus for the Democrats. At stake are 35 governorships, 34 Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House.
The chief prosecutor in the Watergate cover-up trial disclosed that a government witness had withheld until last weekend a “bombshell document” affecting all five defendants. The document is a memorandum written in November, 1972, by E. Howard Hunt, one of the original Watergate break-in defendants.
President Ford met in the White House with a fellow sports lover, Brian Molloy, and autographed a football for him. Brian, 12, of the Bronx appeared nervous but the President quickly put him at ease. The youngster, this year’s national poster child for the Epilepsy Foundation fund drive, has been afflicted since infancy but medication allows him to lead a normal active life.
In one of the largest demonstrations in the New York City’s history, more than 100,000 people filled the streets around the United Nations to protest the General Assembly’s invitation to the Palestinian Liberation Organization to take part in the General Assembly’s Middle East debate. They heard politicians, Israeli leaders and representatives of labor and religious organizations address the rally, which was sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a coalition of 32 groups.
On the eve of tomorrow’s voting in New Jersey, the chairman of the anti-casino gambling forces called on Governor Byrne to repudiate pro-casino radio commercials that seek to portray casino gambling as a panacea for the state’s fiscal crisis, The Governor refused. He said, through a spokesman, that while the commercials “disturbed” him because they were “misleading” he was also “disturbed by misleading statements” by both sides.
Farmers slaughtered more than 300 head of cattle, hogs and sheep in Pillager, Minn., in a protest designed to persuade President Ford to change agricultural policies and fire Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz. Livestock producers and dairy farmers from Minnesota and North Dakota shot the animals and dumped their carcasses into a trench. “We don’t like to do this but it will keep happening until farmers receive production costs and reasonable living costs from their animals,” said Harold Gollner, a spokesman for the group. Another farm protest began at the Kentucky state fairgrounds in Louisville where farmers launched a “calf giveaway” program for persons who said they would feed and maintain the animals for six months.
Expo ’74, the world’s fair many thought would never open, has ended its 184-day life in Spokane amid the cheers of business and government officials who say it was one of the nation’s most successful international exhibitions. Attendance of about 5.2 million exceeded original projections by 500,000 and the enterprise was expected to show a profit. Nine foreign nations along with 46 domestic exhibitors will dismantle their displays over the next 90 days. Then transformation will begin on turning the site into a $7 million riverfront park — what Expo officials consider the fair’s legacy to the city. Some structures will remain but disposition of the $11 million U.S. pavilion has not been determined.
The Mormon Church reaffirmed that it takes no political stand after church official Ezra Taft Benson made remarks supporting the American Party. Benson, U.S. agriculture secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and next in the traditional line to the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told an American Party fund-raising banquet in Salt Lake City that he believed the right-wing party was established on divine and eternal principles and came closest to his own philosophy and that of most Mormons. The church statement was signed by President Spencer W. Kimball and his counselors and did not refer to Benson, 74, or his remarks.
Two medical authorities urged a crackdown on reducing clinics that use injections of a human hormone, along with a meager diet, to help patients lose weight. The hormone, derived from the urine of pregnant women, is called human chorionic gonadotrophin. An editorial in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association says the weight-loss program of these advertised clinics may be hazardous and questions the value of the hormones. A. T. W. Simeons, a British doctor practicing in Rome, first used the hormone along with a semi-starvation diet in the treatment of obesity more than 20 years ago.
Two attorneys appointed by a Texas district court to defend accused mass slayer David Owen Brooks abruptly withdrew from the case because of a disagreement on how to conduct the defense. Attorney Ted Musick, a family friend who had worked with Brooks, 19, for more than a year, and attorney Elaine Hocker, appointed to assist Musick five weeks ago, asked the judge in Houston to be relieved just before a competency hearing for Brooks was to begin. The youth faces trial for the deaths of four of 27 teen-aged boys who were victims of a sex and sadism murder ring in which he allegedly took part.
Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, says in a book just published that she broke a “code of Togethersville” when she sued the builder of the Apollo 1 in which her husband died. Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee were killed when a flash fire swept their cabin during a ground test on January 27, 1967. Mrs. Grissom says in “Starfell,” written with Henry Still, that the code decreed “you should accept your loss in silence, bear up, speak no evil, don’t rock the boat.” But, she said, she learned in 1970 that the astronauts had written widows out of profits from future fringe benefit deals. At that point, she said, “I realized that the astronauts didn’t give a damn about the widows.” The book adds: “Thus it was that Betty one day said goodbye to Togethersville and walked into the office of an attorney…” In an out-of-court settlement, sons Mark and Scott each received $75,000 and she got $60,000.
Martin C. Whitmore was sentenced today to eight and a third to 25 years in the kidnapping of a 14‐year‐old boy whose bludgeoned body was later found tied to a tree. Mr. Whitmore, 19, of West Ellicott, New York, was sentenced in Chautauqua County Court by Judge Lee Towne Adams on charges of second‐degree kidnapping and first‐degree grand larceny. He originally was charged with first‐degree kidnapping and murder, but a jury was unable to reach a verdict on those counts and convicted him only of grand larceny. A few days later, however, Mr. Whitmore pleaded guilty to second‐degree kidnapping and, with the approbation of the prosecution, the murder and first‐degree kidnapping charges were dropped.
The first patent application for a process for recombinant DNA was filed for the invention of Stanley N. Cohen of Stanford University and Herbert W. Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco. U.S. Patent No. 4,237,224 would be granted on December 2, 1980.
The first solar-powered airplane, Sunrise I, made its initial flight after being launched in the U.S. by brothers Robert J. Boucher and Roland Boucher, founders of the AstroFlight company, at a dry lake within the Mojave Desert in Camp Irwin, California; Sunrise I had a wingspan of 32 feet (9.8 m) and weighed 27.5 pounds (12.5 kg), with a 400-watt array of solar cells mounted on the wings. The airplane, not yet ready for a human pilot, flew for almost 20 minutes at an altitude of 300 feet (91 m).
In one of the great upsets of boxing, heavyweight Earnie Shavers, who had a record of 46 wins (44 by knockout or TKO) and only 3 losses, lost a unanimous decision to unknown boxer Bob Stallings, who had 21 wins, 24 losses and only four knockouts.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Los Angeles Rams 15, San Francisco 49ers 13
Norm Snead’s debut as a San Francisco 49er didn’t keep the Los Angeles Rams from strengthening their already formidable grip on the Western Division lead, but it did add excitement and suspense to a National Football League game the Rams won, 15–13, before 57,502 in Candlestick Park tonight. Snead started the second half, after the Rams had taken a 12–3 lead in the first while harassing Tom Owen, the 49er starter, right out of business. The Rams, who lead the National Conference in this department, sacked Owen four times and let him complete only four passes in 12 tries. But Snead, running for a 25‐yard gain on his third play when the entire pass rush wound up behind him, and throwing to his backs with familiar professionalism, moved his team into field goal range both times it had possession in the third quarter. Bruce Gossett, who had kicked a 46‐yearder in the second quarter, missed on a 44‐yard try that was partially blocked, but connected on a 31‐yard kick after that, so the fourth quarter began with the score 12–6. The final period also began, however, with the Rams on the 49er five‐yard line, after a march from midfield following a 36‐yard runback of the kickoff after the field goal. Nevertheless, the aroused 49ers forced them to settle for a 20‐yard field goal by David Ray, and it proved to be the wining play although the it didn’t seem that way a few minutes later. Snead, starting on his 28, his three straight passes to his backs, for 9, 22 and 2 yards and having made the pass rush just a bit wary, found the time to throw long. Gene Washington, running through the end zone, caught it despite interference (which was called) by Eddie McMillan, and the 39‐yard scoring play, plus Gossett’s conversion, made the score 15–13 with 6:53 to play. And with 4:24 left, the 49ers got their chance. Larry McCutcheon fumbled after catching a pass, and Dave Wilcox recovered on the San Francisco 42. But on the first play, a holding penalty set the 49ers back 10 yards; and on the second, Snead was chased out of his pocket. He might have run for a first down again, but he elected to throw on the run and Isiah Robertson intercepted near midfield. The Rams then ran out the clock on running plays, reaching the San Francisco 4. The result left Los Angeles with a 6–2 won‐lost record and a three‐game lead over New Orleans, which is 3–5. Atlanta and San Francisco.
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Born:
Victor Riley, NFL tackle and guard (Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans), in Swansea, South Carolina (d. 2024).
Carlos Mendoza, Venezuelan MLB pinch hitter, pinch runner, and outfielder (New York Mets, Colorado Rockies), in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta), in Redwood City. California.
Kaws [Brian Donnelly], American artist and designer, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Louise Redknapp, British R&B singer-songwriter (Eternal), and TV personality, in London, England, United Kingdom.
Numair Atif Choudhury, Bangladeshi novelist; in Dhaka, Bangladesh (d. 2018).
Died:
Edgar Fernhout, 62, Dutch painter.
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