The Pentagon’s research chief, Malcolm C. Currie, said the Soviet Union may have achieved good enough missile accuracy to threaten destruction of U.S. land-based missiles in a surprise attack. “If we are to keep the risk of nuclear war at its present near-zero level, then we must move as necessary to counter these disturbing Soviet trends,” Currie said in a speech prepared for a banquet in connection with the Strategic Air Command’s annual bombing competition.
Sixteen oil-consuming nations — including the United States — will become founding members of the International Energy Agency when it is formally set up in Paris Monday within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Its major function will be to enact an oil-sharing and saving pact to be used in the event of another world energy crisis, to promote dialogue with oil producers and companies, and to investigate alternate energy forms.
The United States was under strong attack from many countries at the U.N. World Food Conference in Rome for not taking the lead in announcing immediate increased food aid to block starvation in Asia and Africa. Representatives of some countries whose people face famine said the lack of U.S. leadership was an obstacle in rallying support from other affluent countries for increased aid. Members of the U.S. delegation expected the aid would be increased but could not explain why no announcement had been made.
Turkey has withdrawn about 5,000 of her 40,000 troops on Cyprus, Western diplomats said today. The diplomats said they were uncertain whether the withdrawals were specifically designed to forestall the cut‐off of American aid to Turkey. Congress has voted to terminate that aid on December 10 unless there is progress toward a settlement on Cyprus, where Turkish troops control 40 per cent of the territory after their invasion last summer. Secretary of State Kissinger had Planned to visit Ankara last weekend with the intention of urging the Turks to make a goodwill gesture on Cyprus Although the visit was canceled one possible gesture mentioned by Mr. Kissinger was the With drawal of some roops from the island. The Turkish press reported yeaterday that Mr. Kissinger still hoped to visit Ankara before December 10.
Tens of thousands of striking workers demonstrated in Paris and other major French cities in protest against the government’s anti-inflation austerity program. Marching in the streets were civil servants, postmen, printers — whose work stoppage halted publication of national newspapers — and sympathetic journalists. Hospital, customs and social Security employees went on a 24-hour strike and gas and electricity workers prepared for a campaign of sporadic stoppages.
Masked gunmen climbed the walls of a Belfast convent and opened fire on a crowded Roman Catholic youth meeting, killing a schoolmaster, 26, and wounding a boy, 14. The killing brought the 24-hour death toll to Hive, with both Protestant and Catholic groups blamed for the murders. A Catholic, 21, was slain in Londonderry and the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army took credit for the deaths of a Protestant gasoline station attendant, 17, and two men it said were informers. A government office secretary was wounded in the face and hands when a letter bomb exploded as she opened it.
Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky said it was in the interest of oil-producing countries to help find solutions to price problems and prevent a world crisis. However, Kreisky told a National Press Club luncheon in Washington that oil countries have a right to charge a reasonable price for their products. Kreisky conferred Tuesday with President Ford.
A plebiscite to determine the fate of the Greek monarchy will be held December 8, Premier Konstantine Karamanlis announced today. In a campaign speech broadcast over radio and television, he said le was announcing the date to silence his critics. Three of the four major parties have already declared their opposition to the monarchy. Mr. Karamanlis has expressed no position on the issue. The monarchy was abolished in June, 1973, by the military junta, and deposed King Konstantine is now living in London.
Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, became the first representative of an entity other than a member state to address the United Nations General Assembly, and spoke about the concerns of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories of Israel. Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, told the United Nations General Assembly that his organization’s goal remained a Palestinian state that would include Muslims, Christians and Jews. Israel’s delegate, Yosef Tekoah, said in rebuttal that this would mean the destruction of Israel and the substitution of an Arab state.
A dawn trip by Arab leader Yasser Arafat by Army helicopter from Kennedy International Airport to the United Nations headquarters highlighted one of the most exceptional efforts by security forces in New York to protect a foreign dignitary from hostility and possible assassination attempts. Mr. Arafat’s associates were moved from the airport to the United Nations in a motorcade causing morning rush-hour traffic jams.
In the Israeli-occupied Arab town of Nablus on the Jordan’s West Bank, shopkeepers staged a general strike and hundreds of children demonstrated in the town square in a display of support for the Palestine Liberation Organization and its leader, Yasser Arafat. Israeli policemen and paratroopers wielding clubs charged the jeering and whistling crowds of schoolchildren, chasing them into narrow side streets. No injuries were reported. The strike reflected a new, aggressively outspoken tone of independence that has emerged on the West Bank of the Jordan River in recent weeks as a result of the Liberation Organization’s success at the Arab summit conference at Rabat and in getting a hearing before the United Nations General Assembly.
At least two people were killed and five injured this morning when Israeli artillery shelled Nahadye, southeast of here in southern Lebanon. Local residents said Nebatiye had been shelled and rocketed for 40 minutes. Shells hit two densely populated quarters, they said. Half a dozen houses were destroyed. The residents said Lebanese artillery had fired back at the Israelis. Nabatiye’s electricity network was hit and the town plunged into darkness. A number of people hurried away fibm the town toward Saida, residents said. An Israeli Army spokesman said the shelling had been in retaliation for a rocket attack on the northern towns of Qiryat Shemona and Safad late last night. The spokesman said the rocket attack, in which a woman was wounded and two houses were damaged in Qiryat Shemona, was believed to have been the work of Palestinian guerrillas.
Diwali, the most joyotis Hindu holiday of the year, was celebrated tonight on a melancholy note, Sellers of sweets grumbled that sales had declined. Fewer firecrackers and Candles were sold. Sari purchases fell. “Who can afford to buy new saris, who an even afford, to buy barfies and laddoos?” said Mrs. Raj Nanda, the wife of a civil servant standing in the midst of swarming Bengali Market pointing to the sweets “We buy what we can afford now. We buy less and we buy the simpler sweets because they’re cheaper.” Even for middle‐class Indians, who earn $200 to $300 a month, food costs are swallowing up 80 percent of the family budget. Inflation is now running at 30 percent a year. The cost of such delicacies as cashew nuts and almonds has doubled in a year. Sweets, such as baifi, a dried milk confection, sold this year at about $2.30 for 2.2 pounds, compared with about $1.75 last year.
The People’s Daily, in a warning of unprecedented severity, called on the Chinese army to submit unconditionally to the authority of the Communist Party. The warning, which appeared to caution against the possibility of a test of strength, follows rumors that the campaign to criticize Lin Piao has brought negative reactions from some sectors of the Chinese high command. Lin, once successor-designate to Chairman Mao Tse-tung, died in 1971 allegedly after an attempted coup.
The South Korean mass‐circulation Dong‐A Ilbo resumed publication today with a front‐page statement by its publisher saying that his right to publish whatever he wants to is being challenged by a group of his paper’s reporters. The daily skipped its regular, edition yesterday, when the reporters refused to go to work unless a more prominent space was given to a report of Monday’s large anti‐Government Roman Catholic mass celebrated in Seoul and elsewhere. Today’s edition carried the story of Monday’s mass on an inside page, with a picture “of the candlelight procession. Even that is something of a record, one reporter said, adding that it was the first such prominent reporting of an anti-Government rally in nine years.
Two groups of Japanese youths hurled Molotov cocktails at the United States and Soviet Embassy compounds in Tokyo today and were arrested on the spot, the police said. The authorities said six youths, believed to be left‐wing radicals, threw the homemade bombs at the American Embassy compound. At about the same time, three other young men hurled similar explosives at the Soviet Union’s diplomatic compound. The police said some window glass was damaged. Those arrested at both places wore red helmets. The youths’ identities were not immediately known, but the police expressed the belief that they belonged to radical groups opposed to President Ford’s planned visit to Japan.
Portuguese negotiators, working on plans for granting independence to the African colony of Angola, have put aside for the present a proposal for an interim coalition government that would include guerrilla movements. They have decided instead in favor of establishing a guerrilla commission that would advise Portugal and the present colonial administration. The new approach grows out of failures during recent weeks to get each of the guerrilla movements to join the proposed coalition. The coalition was planned as the prelude to independence for this richest and largest of Portugal’s African colonies.
South Africa called her chief United Nations delegate home today in the wake of the General Assembly’s vote to suspend her from participation in its current session. Roelof F. Botha has been summoned home for consultations and will leave as soon as possible, a spokesman said. However, the delegation office in Manhattan will remain open because the vote, taken last night, applies only to participation in the Assembly and does not call for Sotith Africa’s expulsion from membership. In Pretoria, Prime Minister John Vorster said his Government would decide “in its own time” how to react to the Assembly vote. Meanwhile, South Africa will withhold her annual contribution to the United Nations budget, amounting to $1‐million for 1974.
President Ford’s energy chief, Rogers C.B. Morton, expressed strong interest in a big increase in the federal gasoline tax — perhaps 10 cents a gallon — to help discourage consumption, reduce oil imports and drive down world oil prices. Mr. Morton, who is Secretary of the Interior, said that despite Mr. Ford’s decision not to ask Congress for the tax increase, the matter was still alive. Energy Officials explained that, because gas consumption was relatively unresponsive to price increases, it would take an additional tax of at least 10 cents to bring a significant cutback in gallons burned.
Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller told a Senate Committee that his involvement with a biography of Arthur Goldberg, his political opponent in 1970, was the most embarrassing episode of his political life, but he angrily denied it was comparable to the “dirty tricks” of the Watergate period. After the 90‐minute lunch break, Mr. Byrd began questioning Mr. Rockefeller, saying that he thought the book’s content “totally and wholly and absolutely irrelevant. What is relevant,” he said, “is the devious way in which the book was published and the mechanism that was established for the funding of the publication [and] the slow evolvement on your part of the facts.” He asked Mr. Rockefeller if he had not “promised” the F.B.I. to “look into this, matter” and let it know the results. Mr. Rockefeller replied: “I was trying to get the records on so many things I did not put that at as high a priority as some of the other factual questions about gifts, loans, contributions. I was delinquent in not having done this sooner.”
Mr. Byrd suggested that Mr. Rockefeller had decided to tell the whole story because he knew the facts “were going to come out anyway.” “The, whole thing,” he said, is “a throwback to what we have had over the past two years.” The normally imperturbable Mr. Rockefeller interrupted loudly, jabbing at the green‐felt tabletop with his forefinger and slamming it with his palm to emphasize his words: “Mr. Chairman, I have to bitterly object to that.” Mr. Byrd, continuing, said, “This is my viewpoint and I have a right to state it. Facts have come out piecemeal. This is what I have referred to.”
Negotiators for the coal industry and the United Mine Workers have announced an agreement on a new labor-management contract that could end the two-day miners’ strike by November 25, after only a two-week work stoppage.
Six and a half years after American soldiers massacred civilians at Mỹ Lai in South Vietnam, the Army has formally released a report telling how the crime was covered up throughout the military command structure. The release of the report, according to Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway, concludes “a dark chapter” in the Army’s history.
General George Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has expressed his regret for comments made a month ago in which he suggested Israel has undue political influence here and that Jews control the newspapers and the banks in this country. General Brown says that his remarks, made October 10 at Duke University, were “unfortunate,” “ill-considered,” “unfounded,” and “all too casual” and do not represent his convictions.
Attorney General William B. Saxbe ordered all U.S. attorneys to review the estimated 6,200 pending draft evasion cases and dismiss all that do not appear to justify prosecution. He said it was unfair to keep someone in fear of possible prosecution when the case against him was defective. “These instructions are in furtherance of the spirit of President Ford’s clemency program,” Saxbe said. “Before announcing the program the President stated that he would throw his weight on the side of leniency in treating the draft evader and deserter problem.” The attorney general gave the 94 U.S. attorneys until December 11, unless an office has more than 250 cases to consider, in which event the deadline is January 11.
Sniper fire struck a state police car escorting a school bus in the third straight day of violence in the West Virginia textbook controversy. No one was injured in the shooting. Meanwhile, warrants were issued against Kanawha County School Superintendent Kenneth Underwood and four Board of Education members on charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors by introducing pornography into the schools. The warrants were later withdrawn because of legal technicalities. They were issued by the municipal judge in the small mining town of Cedar Grove.
In the first nine months of this year, the retail cost of a year’s supply of farm-produced food went up $197 from its 1973 average, the Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It said that higher middlemen’s charges accounted for 84% of the increase. A market basket of retail food items, enough for a theoretical household of 3.2 persons for an entire year, averaged a record $1,734 on an annual basis during the first three quarters of 1974. It averaged $1,537 for all of last year.
The chief accountant of the Federal Power Commission has ruled that a number of major utility companies have improperly passed on the costs of political advertising to their customers. Covered in the ruling by L. H. Drennan Jr. were many of the widely circulated ads backing nuclear plant development, rate increases, offshore oil exploration, the Alaskan pipeline and the energy shortage in general. The FPC requires that a special account be kept to pay for advertising that seeks to influence political offices or governmental decisions and, such costs cannot be passed on to the customer or treated as operating costs for tax purposes.
Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco, after a meeting in New York City with Mayor Beame, predicted that Congress would pass a mass-transit aid bill before Christmas. Mayor Beame said the federal aid would “come very close” to saving New York City’s 35-cent transit fare. “We’re sanguine about getting a bill before Christmas,” Mr. Alioto said. “We’ll come close to meeting the needs of the 35-cent fare,” Mr. Beame said hesitantly, adding, “If there’s a small difference, we’ll try very hard to work it out.”
Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. shot and killed all six of his family members while they slept in their beds inside the family’s home at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, on Long Island. The story of the murders, and the supernatural events alleged by the Lutz family after their purchase of the house in 1975, would become the basis for a bestselling book in 1977 by Jay Anson and the popular 1979 horror film, “The Amityville Horror.”
The Food and Drug Administration was urged at an unusual open meeting to lift its five-year-old ban on the artificial sweetener cyclamate. Abbott Laboratories produced several scientists who testified that new animal feeding studies gave the chemical a clean bill of health, Cyclamate was banned from soft drinks in 1969 and food and drugs in 1970 after rats fed the substance developed cancerous bladder tumors. The FDA promised a reply in writing but set no date for it. Before the ban, cyclamate was the basis for a $1 billion industry.
The Federal Trade Commission announced that a chain of 320 vocational schools had agreed to refund up to $1.25 million to students who completed training but were unable to get a job. The schools involved were part of a bankrupt corporation which franchised them under several names, most commonly Career Training Institute, Career Training Center, Medical Training Center; National Auto Tune-up Training Center and Keypunch Academy. Most of the schools folded in July, 1972, when the parent company, Career Enterprises, Inc., went bankrupt.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Steve Garvey wins the National League MVP Award with a .312 BA, 21 home runs, and 111 RBI. Garvey, whose boyhood dream was to become a major league star, was named the National League’s most valuable player by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Garvey received 270 points in balloting by a 24‐Man panel composed of two writers from each of the National Leagge’s 12 cities. The writers voted for 10 Players with a first‐place vote worth 14 points, second‐place 9, third-place, 8 and so forth. Garvey won by a comfortable margin, with Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals’ base‐stealing Champion, finishing second with 233 points. Mike Marshall, the Dodgers’ relief hurler who won the National League Cy Young award last week, was third with 146 points. Johnny Bench, the Cincinnati Reds’ catcher who won the award twice previously, was fourth in the balloting with 141 points. Next came. Jimmy Wynn, the Dodger outfielder, with 137 and Mike Schmidt, the Philadelphia Phillies third baseman with 131. Twenty other players were mentioned in the balloting but last year’s winner, Pete Rose, Cincinnati outfielder, did not receive any votes.
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Born:
Sergey Ryazansky, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TMA-10M (Expedition 37/38), 2013-2014, Soyuz MS-05, (Expedition 52/53), 2017), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Matthew Prince, American business executive and billionaire who founded the technology company Cloudflare; in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect; in Bern, Switzerland.
Died:
Karen Silkwood, 28, American chemical technician and labor union activist, was killed near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in a suspicious car crash, while driving to a meeting with David Burnham, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.
Vittorio De Sica, 73, Italian actor and film director known for “Shoeshine” and “Bicycle Thieves”. His death in Paris came on the same day that his final film, “Il Viaggio” (“The Voyage”), starring Sophia Loren and Richard Burton, had been scheduled for its French premiere.
Romuald Iodko, 79, Soviet sculptor known for the popular statue Girl with an Oar (Devishka s veslom)
[Ed: This evil little cocksucker deserved a bullet in the head, not a platform to spread his hate.]
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