Greek Cypriot President Glafkos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash agreed that 1,600 Greek Cypriots detained in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus could be moved south into the Greek area. The detainees are mainly elderly people who were overtaken by advancing Turkish troops. A “good atmosphere” was reported at talks where the two leaders discussed the cease-fire line dividing the communities.
The 30 to 40 West German radical leftists in the Baader-Meinhof gang have succeeded, through a hunger strike in which one of them died Saturday, in dramatizing their two‐and‐a‐half‐year pretrial imprisonment. The main trial of the anarchists, whose sympathizers are also being blamed in the press for the assassination of Judge Günter von Drenkmann in Berlin last night, is not expected until “sometimes next year” in Stuttgart, the Justice Ministry says. The nucleus of the gang, which called itself the “Red Army Faction” “and took responsibility for bombings that killed four American soldiers and wounded 30 persons in May of 1972, numbers 17. Holger Meins, who died in a hospital prison Saturday, at the age of 33, was one. The rest of those being held are said to be helpers or sympathizers. In the wake of the killing of Mr. von Drenkmann, president of West Berlin’s highest court, special protection was ordered for all judges and prosecutors. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was in West Berlin for a political rally today, was guarded closely.
Seven black American sailors have been found guilty of assault arising from racial disturbances aboard the 6th Fleet flagship Little Rock in Naples a year ago, Navy lawyers said. Three others, two blacks and a Puerto Rican, still are to be tried, plus two more blacks who allegedly became involved in further trouble at the naval support base in Naples.
Senator Walter F. Mondale cautioned a select Soviet audience today that Soviet American trade would suffer if Moscow tried to take advantage of the current disarray in the West. The Minnesota Democrat, here on a week’s visit, asserted that the crisis precipitated by a four-fold jump in oil prices was one of the foremost threats to Soviet American accommodation. He noted that détente was also jeopardized by political, turmoil in some Western countries and the threat of hostilities in the Middle East.
Everywhere in Britain these days the talk is of economic decline. Nearly everyone, from housewives fighting inflation to stockbrokers fighting for their livelihood, seems to believe the country faces its most difficult period in years. “It’s not like the war, when we had a common enemy we could stand up against,” said a London real estate broker. “It’s just depression and backsliding and gloom. Maybe there won’t always be a Britain.” The malaise is so pervasive that, many Britons appear to feel that the country’s troubles are beyond solution — at least for the present. Thus the autumn budget to be presented by the government tomorrow is being viewed as just another palliative that stands little chance of success in the fight against economic stagnation.
[Ed: Maggie Thatcher glares and taps the sign: “The problem with socialism is, Sooner or Later you run out of other peoples’ money.”]
In one of their most chaotic meetings on record, the foreign ministers of the nine European Common Market countries failed to make progress in Brussels today on any of the major points slated for discussion at a summit meeting of the countries’ heads of government in Paris next month.
The General Federation of Labor dealt a blow to the Israeli Government’s economic policy today by demanding that wage earners receive full compensation in January for the higher prices resulting from the devaluation of the pound this week and the reduction of government subsidies on basic foods.
The United States is delaying delivery of eight C-130 transport planes to Libya because of generally bad relations with Libya, the State Department said. The aircraft were sold under a deal negotiated before the October, 1973, Mideast war. Government sources said the price for the eight aircraft and parts was nearly $70 million. Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had charged that the United States had imposed an arms embargo on Libya.
The crime that would lead to the arrest and execution of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took place after the Nawab judge Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri was shot to death during an apparent attempt to assassinate his son, Pakistan National Assembly representative Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri. Prime Minister Bhutto would be arrested in 1977 on suspicion of ordering the assassination of Ahmad Kasuri and hanged in 1979.
After more than three months of fighting between the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN, invading from North Vietnam) and the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN, defending South Vietnam), and hundreds of deaths on both sides, the Communist PAVN won the Battle of Thượng Đức, but the ARVN was able to prevent the Communists from capturing the South Vietnamese city of Đà Nẵng. South Vietnam would fall to the Communists less than six months later.
U.S.-Soviet moves toward detente were denounced by China as camouflage for war preparations. Speaking at a banquet honoring South Yemen leader Salem Robaya Ali, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping called the superpowers exploiters and oppressors and “the source of a new world war.” “The so-called ‘détente’ they are playing up,” he said, “is meant to deceive people and cover up their aggressive nature and the truth of their war preparations.”
Secretary of State Kissinger will fly to Peking for four days of consultations with Chinese leaders on November 25, one day after the conclusion of President Ford’s meeting with Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader. A simultaneous announcement here and in Peking confirmed that Mr. Kissinger would make his, seventh trip to China in a series that began in July, 1971, when his secret visit opened the way to more normal relations. The latest trip was clearly intended, in part, to assure the Chinese that Mr. Ford would not be acting against their interests during his two‐day meeting with Mr. Brezhnev in Vladivostok.
Mr. Kissinger was last in China in early November last year when he held a long session with Mao Tse‐tung and many meetings with Premier Chou En‐lai. Since then, Mr. Chou has become seriously, ill and has stopped playing an active role. Most recently, he has met visitors in his hospital room. The nature of his illness has not been made public. Mr. Kissinger believes that on this visit he will spend much of his time with Teng Hsiaoping, a Deputy Premier who, apparently is being groomed to replace Mr. Chou.
After the victory of the Far East team from Taiwan in the 1974 Little League World Series, the U.S.-based Little League Baseball Inc. announced that the Series would be limited to United States teams only.
Mrs. Yun Po Sun, wife of the former South Korean president recently convicted of anti-government activities, began a one-week hunger strike with about 60 other persons to demand the release of 203 political prisoners. The prisoners were convicted this year under emergency laws decreed by President Park Chung Hee.
The bodies of two crewmen were found aboard the burned-out Liberian freighter Pacific Ares that collided in Tokyo Bay Saturday with the liquid-gas-carrying Japanese tanker Yuyo Maru. The known death toll is now 21. Twelve crewmen from the two ships are still unaccounted for. The tanker exploded after the collision and is still burning.
The effort to lift the political and economic blockade imposed on Cuba a decade ago by the Organization of American States nearly collapsed at the organization’s meeting in Quito, Ecuador. Latin-American foreign ministers advocating a reconciliation with Cuba were two votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the resolution, and they pressed for a last-minute accord. In a closed session, the United States delegation informed other members of the organization that it intended to abstain in the vote.
Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau, who brought Expo ’67 and the 1967 summer Olympics to the city, was elected to an unprecedented fifth term. Unofficial returns gave him 55% of the popular vote against 39% for his chief opponent, Jesuit priest Jacques Couture of the newly formed Montreal Citizens Move: ment. However, the MCM won onethird of the 55 City Council seats.
Seven miners were killed in South Africa after heavy rains caused a mudslide at the Bafokeng mine of Impala Platinum Company. At least seven men were killed when a slime-retaining dam collapsed sending hundreds of tons of mud down a shaft at a platinum mine 100 miles northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. Officials at the Impala Platinum Mine — the world’s second largest and major supplier of platinum for exhaust catalysts to General Motors — said about 3.000 men were in the shaft when the mud began pouring in but all escaped through another shaft except the seven-five black and two white miners.
The United Nations headquarters was like a citadel awaiting a siege as the first contingent of the Palestine Liberation Organization arrived in New York City for the General Assembly debate on Palestine, which begins Wednesday. The advance party of 16 representatives was under the most extensive security since Fidel Castro of Cuba and Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union visited the United Nations in 1960.
The White House formally agreed to let Henry Ruth, the special Watergate prosecutor, have access to all of former President Nixon’s records that relate to cases under investigation. The agreement, filed as a joint motion between the White House and the special prosecutor’s office, stipulates that Mr. Nixon may not take any of his records or tape recordings from the White House without the approval of Mr. Ruth. The agreement is subject to approval by Judge Charles Rickey of Federal District Court.
President Ford’s Citizens Action Committee to Fight Inflation announced a voluntary, grass-roots anti-inflation program across the country and warned that wage and price controls would “almost inevitably” follow if voluntary action failed. The key business representative on the committee, Arch Booth, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, said he could not recommend that businesses cooperate with the program on the ground that they were asked to hold or reduce prices but a similar pledge was not asked of workers on wages. He was sharply assailed by other committee members.
The failure of mine operators and union negotiators to approach final agreement on a new contract extended the coal miners’ strike, that began at midnight, from two weeks to at least three weeks’ duration. A union official said he did not expect a settlement for another three days. Industry officials privately agreed. Two weeks would be necessary for the miners to ratify a new contract.
The jury at the Watergate cover-up trial heard parts of three White House tapes that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation from the presidency. Out of the presence of the jury, but in open court, the chief prosecutor said that the tapes and other evidence proved a “direct agency” in which Mr. Nixon’s “agents” obstructed justice at Mr. Nixon’s order.
Discrepancies have been uncovered involving a major piece of evidence — an unfired, 32 caliber bullet — used to help convict Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, the former boxer, and a co-defendant in a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey, tavern eight years ago.
Auto industry layoffs soared past the 84,000 mark with the release of 22,525 Chrysler workers. In Detroit, the United Auto Workers union urged a strong government program to stave off a near-disaster economic situation. Of the workers idled, 62,000 have been laid off indefinitely. UAW Vice President Irving Bluestone said, “We anticipate further layoffs. This is not the end of it. This is the beginning of it.” He blamed auto price increases for the sales slump and layoffs and asked manufacturers to reassess their price boosts.
A federal judge in Dallas was blocked by an appeals court in New Orleans from mounting a special prosecution of milk lobbyist Jake Jacobsen, the government’s prime witness against John B. Connally, a former Treasury secretary and former Texas governor. U.S. Dist. Judge Robert M. Hill has insisted on seeing Jacobsen tried on a misapplication of funds charge that federal prosecutors had sought to dismiss after Jacobsen agreed to testify against Connally in return for immunity. Connally has been indicted in connection with illegal contributions from a milk cooperative.
Carbon copies of the “J. Hawker” letters involved in a $1 million extortion plot against a power company were found in the home of a young couple charged with sending one of them, authorities said in Portland, Ore. Nine sheets of paper found in the rural home of David W. Heesch and his wife, Sheila Arline, both 34, included phrases from the first letter, it was disclosed in court. Eleven Bonneville Power Administration high voltage transmission towers around Mt. Hood and the town of Maupin were damaged by dynamite blasts and then followed by threats to black out Portland.
A chemist testified in Houston that Ronald Clark O’Bryan, charged with murder in the trick-or-treat candy poisoning of his son, asked him about the use of cyanide less than two months before Halloween. Earlier, Judge Wallace Moore signed a five-count indictment against O’Bryan, 30, charging him with murder in the death of Timothy, 8, and the attempted murder of four other children, one of them being his daughter, Elizabeth, 5. Chemist Robert Terry said O’Bryan had telephoned and asked questions about the availability of cyanide and the amount needed to kill. Sources said O’Bryan took out a $38,000 life insurance policy on his son shortly before his death.
Laws should be passed to prevent Atlantic Richfield, Mobil and other oil companies from resuming promotions and giveaways at some stations to sell a recent gasoline surplus, Governor Edwin W. Edwards of Louisiana said in New York. “It’s inexcusable for the companies to stimulate demand, because we just do not have adequate supply in this country,” he said. Edwards was in New York to address an American Petroleum Institute meeting. He spoke in favor of offshore drilling in the Northeast, California and Alaska to alleviate the oil shortage.
The energy crisis could be alleviated by having motorists use up to 15% methanol, also known as wood alcohol, with gasoline, Dr. William A. Nierenberg, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said in La Jolla. The mixture could be burned without any alteration of automobile engines and would improve mileage as well as reduce pollution, he said. But Neirenberg added that bureaucrats are not interested in methanol because “no research and development is needed.”
Business executives meeting in Washington, D.C., were told that their companies can actually increase profits by conserving energy. About 150 trade and industrial executives were lectured on the subject of energy during a briefing at the Executive Office Building, next to the White House. Each received about 300 pages of materials and saw a half-hour film before hearing an address by Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent, who reminded them of President Ford’s goal of cutting oil imports by 1 million barrels per day, and said, “Each barrel saved is a barrel we don’t have to import. Each barrel we don’t have to import is a vote for energy independence-and the viability of the free enterprise system.”
The timber industry has a direct stake in development of a national energy policy, delegates to the Pacific Logging Conference at Reno were told by Nevada Governor Mike O’Callaghan. He told the 1,500 loggers and logging equipment manufacturers that energy policy “will touch all of us,” and that if metal and plastics use in construction is cut back to meet energy availability, “then the need for wood products to fill that materials void will increase.” O’Callaghan said this “gives you a direct stake in the outcome of a national energy policy.”
A previously unknown subatomic particle, the J/psi meson, was discovered independently by two different groups of researchers. The discovery led to rapid changes in high-energy physics which collectively became known as the “November Revolution”. Burton Richter and Samuel C. C. Ting received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.”
Internationally renowned opera singer Maria Callas gave her last public performance, appearing at Sapporo in Japan.
The Little League announced at its headquarters in Williamsport, Pa., that it would confine future world series to teams from the continental United States. Travel costs for foreign entries and the nationalistic approach taken abroad were given as reasons for the change. Regional championships in Canada, the Far East, Europe and Latin America and playoffs for Senior or Big League programs will not be affected.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Minnesota Vikings 28, St. Louis Cardinals 24
The law of averages and the persistence of Francis Tarkenton caught up with the St. Louis Cardinals tonight as the Minnesota Vikings beat them, 28–24. One of the features of the remarkable St. Louis success this season, which had brought seven victories in eight games, was the relative absence of the turnovers — meaning fumbles lost and passes intercepted. Two Cardinal fumbles in the first period opened the way for two easy Minnesota touchdowns in the first quarter. In the eight previous games the Cards had lost only four fumbles, an unusually low number, and those who believe in averages suspected the turnovers would catch up with this young team. As for Tarkenton, the Viking quarterback, he directed a methodical attack which featured two middle‐distance touchdown drives In the second half that won, the game. Tarkenton himself scored the last touchdown on a bootleg run of 10 yards around right end. That touchdown put the Vikings ahead, 28–17, with six minutes left to play. St. Louis scored once more and then staged a late rally, a typical mark of the Monday night contests, which fell short. The Cardinals’ fine quarterback, Jim Hart, was firing incomplete passes at the end from the Minnesota 25‐yard line.
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Born:
Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor (“The Departed”, “Inception”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”), in Los Angeles, California.
Olesya Zheleznyak, Russian theater and film actress, and 2002 Seagull Award winner; in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Static Major [Stephen Garrett], American R&B singer and songwriter, in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2008).
Died:
Benito Perojo, 80, Spanish film director and producer.
Jane Ace (born Jane Epstein), 74, American radio comedy performer, of cancer.
J. Hunter Guthrie SJ, 73, American Roman Catholic priest, former President of Georgetown University.
Aharon Meskin, 77, Hebrew theater actor, of a heart attack.
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