Secretary of State Kissinger proposed three new international bodies in his address to the World Food Conference in Rome: an exporters’ planning group, a food production and investment coordinating group, and a group to coordinate food reserves. He laid special emphasis on cooperation of the oil-producing countries in aid programs. He said the total food imports needed by developing nations would rise from 25 million tons at the present time to 85 million tons by 1985. In his speech, delivered at the opening assembly of the conference, Mr. Kissinger said: “We must act now and we must act together to regain control over our shared destiny. If we do not act boldly, disaster will result from a failure of will.” Ending on a more hopeful note, he said: “Today we must proclaim a bold objective — that within a deade no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day’s bread, and that no human being’s future and capacities will be stunted by malnutrition.”
Secretary of State Kissinger held a surprise breakfast meeting with the Greek Foreign Minister, Dmitri S. Bitsios in Rome today to discuss a possible Cyprus compromise that might begin to emerge from Mr. Kissinger’s trip to Turkey later this week. The 90‐minute session in Mr. Kissinger’s suite at the Excelsior Hotel was not announced ahead of time because of the Greek Government’s desire to avoid publicity. A joint statement said later that the talks were “very cordial and very friendly” and that both sides agreed to stay in close touch after Mr. Kissinger’s talks with Turkish officials Friday and Saturday. Newsmen aboard Mr. Kissinger’s Air Force plane flying from Rome to Cairo tonight were told that Mr. Kissinger believed tensions between the Turks and Greeks had eased, particularly after a recent round of secret talks in New York between Mr. Bitsios and the Turkish Foreign Minister, Turan Güneş.
U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger called on the European allies of the United States today to add to allied strength to match the increases in the military power of the Warsaw Pact countries.
Simas Kudirka, who had made an unsuccessful attempt to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1971, arrived in New York along with his wife, his two children and his mother after being allowed to leave Moscow earlier in the day. Kudirka had jumped onto a U.S. Coast Guard ship but then was returned to the custody of the Soviets, who sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment for treason.
Britons got their first major taste of another prospective winter of discontent when thousands of commuters were stranded by a 24-hour suspension of many train runs and other labor disputes disrupted vital services around the country. Housewives crowded stores searching for sugar as supplies rapidly dried up under the impact of a labor dispute at Britain’s biggest refinery. In the northeast, senior hospital staff members refused to work overtime and in Glasgow a prolonged garbage collectors’ strike left the city a mess.
Gunmen hijacked a freight train near Jonesboro Bridge, Irish Republic, 250 yards south of the border with Northern Ireland, and packed it with beer kegs in a bomb hoax that tied up rail traffic for hours and forced evacuation of nearby houses. Police believed the gunmen planned to send the train on a runaway terror mission into Northern Ireland but the track incline frustrated them.
French left-wing trade unions staged new walkouts in public services to back wage demands and rejected official charges that their growing strike wave was a Communist scheme to weaken the government. The new strikes affected the state-run electric power and railroad operations, causing temporary blackouts in Paris and provincial towns and crippling a number of railroad lines. Meanwhile, mail service throughout France remained paralyzed by a mailmen’s strike now into its third week.
The French wine industry, claiming a loss of prestige around the world, demanded more than 4 million francs (almost $1 million) in damages from 18 industry leaders accused of mixing cheap wine with quality Bordeaux red to boost profits. At the fraud trial of the 18 in Bordeaux lawyers representing various sectors of the industry accused the defendants of cupidity, blindness and profiteering from the labor of France’s small grape growers.
Secretary of State Kissinger arrived in Cairo tonight to find out whether further United States mediation efforts in the Middle East were still welcome. In an airport statement Mr. Kissinger said his principal purpose in this visit was to obtain President Anwar elSadat’s assessment of the recent Arab summit conference in Rabat, Morocco, which made the Palestine Liberation Organization a key factor in any negotiations on the Israelioccupied West Bank of the Jordan River. The Israelis have said they will not negotiate with the Palestinians. Mr. Kissinger hopes that the Egyptians are still willing to enter into negotiations on a second‐stage Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai Peninsula even though the West Bank issue is certain to remain blocked for some time. President, Sadat, who has been ill with influenza, received Mr. Kissinger for a late‐night meeting at his residence shortly after the Secretary’s arrival.
His illness compelled the President to stay away from a state dinner tonight for Sheik Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh. Mr. Sadat conferred during the day, however, with Sheik Mujib and also with Yasir Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who arrived in Cairo yesterday. Mr. Kissinger has said that neither he nor any of his principal aides will confer with Mr. Arafat or any other leading members of the Palestinian organization during the Secretary’s three‐day tour of four countries.
Israeli forces brought back the headman of a southern Lebanon village and his son for questioning after an overnight raid, an army spokesman said today. The spokesman announced earlier in the day that a house in the village of Majdal‐el-Zoon, five miles north of the border had been demolished but news of the taking of the two men was withheld for several hours. The house was said to have been used by Arab guerrillas. The spokesman said the village official and his son were “known to have cooperated with terrorists.” It wss the second time in four days that Israel announced raids across the border to blow up houses believed harbor guerrillas.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin told Parliament today that Israel could not accept the decision of the Arab leaders last week to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. He said Israel was willing to to work out final peace agreements with the Arabs on the basis of territorial compromise but would not negotiate with Palestinian guerrilla groups.
The Premier said the Israeli Government would now test whether the resolutions approved by the Arab leaders in their conference at Rabat, Morocco, would permit Egypt and Jordan to discuss settlements separately with Israel. The declaration that the Arab leaders adopted called on leaders of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization to consult on a common approach to talks with Israel. After a six‐hour debate, a Communist motion calling upon the Government to act to reopen the Middle East peace talks in Geneva was overwhelmingly defeated. Only four voted in favor of the proposal. Parliament voted 63 to 42 to take note of Mr. Rabin’s opening statement and the closing speech by Yigal Allon, who is Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister.
Mr. Rabin said that while Israel preferred final peace agreements on the basis of territorial compromise, she was alternatively willing to explore the possibility of progress toward peace in phases. He said it would be harmful to detail in public matters that might he discussed but said negotiations must be held at the political level, possibly covering economic arrangements. Talks must not be limited to military matters, he went on, as were those on the existing, disengagement accords with Egypt and Syria.
A Jordanian Caravelle airliner was hijacked while on a scheduled flight from Amman to Aqaba on the Red Sea, Beirut airport sources said. No details on the identity of the hijackers or their number were available. There was no word on the number of passengers or crew on the Royal Jordanian Airlines plane.
Opposition legislators accused the South Vietnamese government of trying to starve out a village where police allegedly fired on demonstrators protesting what they called a government-sanctioned land grab. National Assembly Deputy Nguyễn Văn Bình said police still sealed off Chính Tâm three days after two Roman Catholic demonstrators were allegedly shot to death. The powerful Ấn Quang faction of the Buddhist Church reaffirmed its demand for the resignation of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and expressed support for the largely Catholic People’s Anti-corruption Movement.
About 30 young Korean residents of Japan held a rally in Tokyo demanding cancellation of a South Korean tour by President Ford and resignation of South Korean President Park Chung Hee. Meanwhile, about 1,500 students demanding political reform hurled rocks at riot police during a two-hour confrontation at Hanyang University in Seoul. No arrests or injuries were reported. Demonstrations against Park’s rule are now occurring almost daily.
The People’s Republic of China failed in its first attempt to launch its new Long March 2 rocket.
In the United States, the Democratic Party made major gains nationwide in the elections for the U.S. Congress, particularly in the House of Representatives, where the Democrats won a two-thirds majority, with 291 of the 435 seats. The election also brought 93 first-time Representatives. With 34 of the 100 U.S. Senate seats on the ballot, the Democrats gained four formerly Republican seats to increase their majority to 61 to 37. Former NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, was elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time.. Democrats captured Republican-held Senate seats in Florida, Colorado and Kentucky, and appeared on the verge of upset victories in Vermont and New Hampshire. It appeared to be the most stinging defeat in a decade for the Republicans.
The Democrats captured two big-state prizes that had long eluded them – the governorships of New York and Massachusetts. Republican candidates won in Kansas and led in South Carolina. Michigan remained too close to call, but Democrats won in Connecticut and Tennessee and were leading in Colorado and Ohio. Ella Grasso in Connecticut is the first elected first woman U.S. governor not related to the previous governor.
Walter E Washington, becomes the first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
New Jersey voters decisively rejected casino gambling and gave Republicans their worst congressional defeat in recent state
A defendant in the criminal trial stemming from the 1970 Kent State University shootings told of firing two shots at knee level but not knowing whether they struck anyone, an FBI agent testified in Cleveland. In other testimony, two of the students wounded during the May 4, 1970, flareup told how they were struck by bullets as they tried to get away. Eight former Ohio National Guardsmen are on trial in connection with the confrontation that left four students dead and nine others wounded.
CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr said that former Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg told him the late Chief Justice Earl Warren was denied admission to Bethesda Naval Hospital, possibly through inaction by former President Richard M. Nixon. Schorr said, that according to Goldberg, Warren told him he sought admission to Bethesda but “President Nixon had not made it possible.” Not until he had entered Georgetown University Hospital did the White House physician offer to transfer him. As a retired justice, Warren needed White House approval to be admitted.
history. They unseated four of seven incumbent Republicans and gave the Democrats a 12-to-3 margin in the state’s delegation in the House of Representatives.
Negotiations to avert a national coal strike, which is expected to begin this weekend, broke down again early today. Arnold R. Miller, the president of the United Mine Workers, said in rejecting the coal industry’s latest offer that mine management “has just declared a strike in the coal fields.” The third break in the bargaining in the last three days came at 1:30 AM and appeared to mark the collapse of frantic efforts by Federal mediators to revive the faltering talks. With almost no hope of preventing a strike, Federal mediators had nevertheless obtained an agreement late yesterday for a resumption of negotiations after a breach in the talks on Sunday. The two sides met briefly at the Hay‐Adams Hotel and then union negotiators retired to a separate caucus to study what was described as a company proposal for a completely new labor‐management contract.
Federal Judge John Sirica overruled defense objections in the Watergate cover-up trial and said that the prosecution could proceed along the lines it had proposed for proving the admissibility of White House tapes as evidence.
Henry Petersen resigned as chief of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, effective December 31, with a warm letter of regret from President Ford. Mr. Petersen’s decision in early 1973 to give President Nixon details of the grand jury inquiry into the Watergate cover-up was widely questioned, but he expressed no regrets.
Senator J. W. Fulbright (D-Arkansas) underwent minor surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center Monday, his office said. Fulbright was hospitalized for some corrective surgery which had been postponed until the congressional recess. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reported in good condition.
First Lady Betty Ford has started taking L-phenylalanine mustard, an oral anticancer drug, the White House said. The pills are to treat any malignancy that may not have been detected and removed during Mrs. Ford’s radical breast surgery six weeks ago.
The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church has rejected a $627 contribution to the church’s world hunger campaign because the money was collected at a service led by three women priests whose ordination he considers invalid. Bishop John M. Allin, who last month urged higher church priority for issues such as world hunger as distinct from internal matters such as the ordination controversy, said he felt compelled to reject the hunger funds as a matter of conscience.
The Jefferson County (Birmingham, Alabama) health department said it still intends to take the U.S. Steel Corp. to court for violating the state’s clean air law. U.S. Steel announced Monday it had shut down three open hearth furnaces fired up October 26 after one of its new furnaces malfunctioned. Health department officials said the firm was required to have a permit before operating the open hearth furnaces. They asked a federal court to assess damages against the firm.
The World Wildlife Fund, headquartered in Geneva, charged that the high fashion house of Christian Dior is destroying wild animals for the sake of profits. In an open letter, the fund said Dior fashions “have stimulated the extermination of wild animals becoming extinct or threatened with extinction.” In Paris, Frederic Caspe, designer of the Dior fur collection, said that since 1973 Dior no longer uses furs from animals in danger of extinction. He said he designed only from animals reared for furs such as mink, or unendangered animals.
Last month’s experimental burning of 2,400 metric tons of industrial wastes in the Gulf of Mexico by the incinerator ship Vulcanus went better than expected, a Shell Oil Co. spokesman reported. He said tests showed no damage to water, air or wildlife, and added: “We are convinced that ocean burning is the best alternative to land-based incineration available at this time.” Shell expects to complete an onshore incinerator for industrial wastes at its Deer Park, Tex., manufacturing complex in 1976.
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Born:
Chris Sununu, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (2017-), in Salem, New Hampshire.
Jerry Stackhouse, NBA shooting guard and small forward (NBA All-Star, 2000, 2001; Philadelphia 76ers, Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Milwaukee Bucks, Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets), in Kinston, North Carolina.
José Santiago, Puerto Rican MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillliies, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets), in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Conrad Hamilton, NFL cornerback (New York Giants, Atlanta Falcons), in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Zheng Li, Chinese television news anchor known for her China Central Television (CCTV) evening program “Xinwen Lianbo” (Simulcast News); in Kedong County, Heilongjiang province, China.
Ryan Adams (born David Ryan Adams), American singer and songwriter; in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Died:
Anwar Ali, 61, Pakistani economist, governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority since 1958, died following a heart attack.
John C. Farrar, 78, American editor, writer and publisher, co-founder of Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes, GBE, CH, PC, 73, British politician, Governor-General of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962
Stafford Repp, 56, American actor known for playing Chief Miles O’Hara on the “Batman” television series, of a heart attack.
Marguerite Namara (stage name for Marguerite Banks), 85, American opera soprano.
William Gardner Smith, 47, American journalist, novelist and editor, of cancer of the esophagus.
Abdellatif Zeroual, 23, Moroccan dissident and official of the Ila al-Amam Marxist group, disappeared after being taken away by a group of plainclothes police.
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