Secretary General Joseph Luns of NATO said in London that the Soviet Union with its vastly increased military and naval strength could cut off allied supplies in any new East-West crisis and “compel us to choose between surrender and a nuclear holocaust.” Luns sounded the warning at the opening session of the North Atlantic Assembly, political arm of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Secretary of State Kissinger announced that the United States was undertaking a vast new effort on an international scale to deal with the world energy crisis and the deteriorating financial situation in many countries. In a speech in Chicago to a University of Chicago group, addressed as much to foreign governments as to the American public, Mr. Kissinger outlined a strategy for consumer-nation cooperation.
With two days to go before the end of the U.N. World Food Conference, most of the action concentrated on who would foot the bill for providing a yearly 10 million tons of grain to feed the planet’s hungry masses. Conference sources said a few minor resolutions on such issues as irrigation and the tse-tse fly would be ready for passage in a plenary session today but major decisions probably would be delayed until the final day.
In Paris, the International Energy Agency was formed by representatives of 16 nations— the U.S., the UK, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey— in a cooperative agreement to pool the combined oil supplies of the members in the event of another embargo by oil-producing nations.
Violence erupted among 2,200 teenagers who poured from their high school classrooms in Larnaca, Cyprus, and fought a two-hour battle with sticks and stones among themselves over the possible return of Archbishop Makarios. The students later attacked a Greek-Cypriot national guard post, injuring a guardsman.
Scotland Yard sent frogmen into the sea to investigate whether the Earl of Lucan — wanted on a murder charge — might have chosen death by drowning. Other officers scoured the rocks at the foot of Beachy Head, a chalk cliff often favored for suicide leaps. It was at the port of Newhaven, not far from Beachy Head, that a car last used by the 39-year-old earl was found abandoned last Sunday. That was nearly three days after the murder at the earl’s London home of children’s nurse Sandra Rovett Rivett, 29. The earl is accused of murdering the nurse and trying to kill his wife the same night.
The Soviet leadership today signaled a tougher, more orthodox line in cultural affairs with the appointment of Pyotr N. Demichev as Minister of Culture. Mr. Pemichev, for nearly a decade the party’s ranking watchdog over the arts and propaganda has a reputation among the intelligentsia as a stern taskmaster and orthodox ideologist. Western diplomats have noted a number of conservative statements by him on the East‐West ideological struggle.
Portuguese Army Major General Mário Lemos Pires took office as the last colonial governor of Portuguese Timor, a colonial possession of Portugal since 1702. Granted independence by Portugal in 1975, the area on the island of Timor was quickly annexed by Indonesia.
Over protests by Israel, the General Assembly voted 75 to 23 to limit each nation to one major speech in the current debate on Palestine. The decision was denounced by Yosef Tekoah, the Israeli delegate, who said it was clearly a move to “muzzle Israel’s freedom to speak.” It was believed to be the first time that such a restriction had been approved in the history of the United Nations.
Kurdish rebels fighting Iraqi troops for independence appealed for international aid for thousands of refugees fleeing the battlefront. Mohsen Dizayi, a spokesman for the rebels, said that about 750,000 Kurds may be driven from their mountain homes this winter with limited supplies of food and medicine at their disposal. The Kurdistan Democratic Party estimates that 100,000 Kurds — fleeing tanks, artillery and swooping bombers — already are in refugee camps.
Angry opposition legislators walked out of a parliamentary debate on reforming South Vietnam’s press laws and joined a protest demonstration by journalists and publishers outside. They objected chiefly that the government-backed bill to change the legislation controlling Saigon’s newspapers still allowed confiscation on what they termed vague grounds. Meanwhile, the remaining deputies in the lower house approved the bill, which now goes to the Senate.
An American Roman Catholic priest was detained for seven hours by South Korean police after he fought with them during a demonstration for the release of political prisoners in Seoul. The Rev. James Peter Sinnott, 45, of Brooklyn, New York, said the police were courteous in questioning him and released him after he signed a statement. He and other priests had been escorting 35 relatives of prisoners in an illegal protest march when police began taking away their signs and the scuffle ensued.
The Japanese Government, increasingly nervous about President, Ford’s scheduled visit here next week, announced today that 160,000 policemen would be mobilized to protect him. It would be the largest number of policemen ever turned out in Tokyo. Mizuo Kuroda, who is the equivalent of an assistant Secretary of State, said the police “are preparing for anything that might happen.” It was unclear how the Japanese Government would mobilize as many as 160,000 policemen to protect Mr. Ford. Tokyo has 42,000 regular policemen and there are an additional 29,000 in the specially trained and equipped National Riot Police.
China announced today that she had replaced her Foreign Minister, naming the former United Nations delegate Chiao Kuan‐hua to take over the post from Chi Peng‐fei. Mr. Chiao had headed China’s United Nations delegation to the General Assembly since Peking was admitted to the world body in 1971. He was formerly Deputy Foreign Minister. Mr. Chi, who became Foreign Minister on the death of Chen Yi early in 1972, will be given another assignment, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. But he gave no details. Mr. Chiao, who is 60 years old, is a former journalist and a close confidant of Premier Chou En‐lai.
China’s leadership acknowledged early last summer that the anti‐Confucian political campaign had created “major weaknesses” in the economy, according to excerpts from a secret document that were published here‐today. The campaign had been promoted in the first half of the year as a revival of the values of the Cultural Revolution. But a sober assessment, secretly published July 1 as Document 21 of the Central Committee of the Communist party, asserted that slumping coal production and railway, congestion had “forced many enterprises to cease or reduce their production.” As a result, the document said, the production targets for steel, iron, nonferrous metals, chemical fertilizers, cement and armaments were all “not being fulfilled well.” It then listed by name factories in four major industrial centers where, it said, production had been “sharply reduced” because of factional fighting, labor indisciplinem and an abdication of responsibility by managers.
“The Brazilian economic miracle has not reached the people but only a privileged few,” an opposition candidate for a Senate seat charged in his closing rally here this week. Here, as elsewhere in the country, public discontent with the rapidly rising cost of living is expected to be a major factor in the election tomorrow when one‐third of the national Senate, all members of the Chamber of Deputies and state assembly members are to be chosen. The Brazilian military Government’s political arm, the National Renewal Alliance, called by its Portuguese acronym, Arena, is expected to win as usual. But the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement, which until now has exercised a largely symbolic role, is genetally expected to make major gains for the first time in many parts of the country.
Like many Africans in Zaire, Monya Tshuapa dates most happenings from “the events,” but she does not talk much about the events themselves. “We all suffered,” she said, referring to the time of the mass killings that took the lives of about 8,000 Africans and 500 whites 10 years ago. “Many believe they are best forgotten,” she added. Today’s Kisangani, an African‐run metropolis hedged in by the wide, rushing Congo River and thick rain forest, is a shell of the city known 10 years ago as Stanleyville. “The events” began during the summer of 1964, in the later stages of the Congolese civil war. Dissidents in the eastern part of the country broke with the central government in Kinshasa, which was then called Leopoldville. The dissidents formed the People’s Republic of the Congo. Their troops—called simbas, or lions in Swahili—soon controlled a large area. Government statistics say that the dissidents killed some 6,000 people. The most widely publicized of the killings were in this city in November, 1964, when 22 whites were shot to death.
The very first operational McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle air superiority fighters were delivered to the 555th Tactical Training Squadron, 58th Tactical Training Fighter Wing, at Luke Air Force Base, west of Phoenix, Arizona. The acceptance ceremony was presided over by President Gerald R. Ford.
Nelson Rockefeller, on the second day of questioning by the Senate Rules Committee, agreed to pledge to make no gifts or loans to federal employees if confirmed as Vice President, except for “nominal” gifts for birthdays or weddings or “in the event of medical hardships of a compelling human character.” He spent five and a half hours at the hearing. Former Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg was then called as a witness. He was the subject of a derogatory campaign biography that involved financing by Mr. Rockefeller and a brother, Laurance Rockefeller.
President Ford declared that it was time for Congress “to fish or cut bait” in confirming his nomination of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President, made nearly three months ago. “There should be a specific deadline for both the President to nominate and for the Congress to confirm a Vice President,” Mr. Ford said. He will ask the next Congress to re-examine the seven-year-old 25th Amendment under which Mr. Rockefeller was nominated and Mr. Ford became Vice President last year.
The government issued new figures on the economy that showed a resumption of the steep climb in wholesale food prices in October, some abatement in the upward movement of other prices and further evidence of an overall slowdown in the economy. Wholesale food prices last month rose 4.7 percent, increasing the overall index of wholesale prices by 2.3 percent.
The Ford administration is taking a gloomier view of the nation’s economic prospects in the coming months because of a worse-than-expected decline in automobile sales and increasing layoffs in assembly plants. The President’s economic advisers are revising their estimates downward for economic activity and upward for unemployment throughout the economy.
The Ford Administration indicated to the nation’s coastal states today that it was going ahead with its plans for sharply increased offshore oil drilling no matter how they felt about it. Some of the Governors and other top officials from Maine to Alaska invited by the president to seek their cooperation in shaping the new drilling plans came away from two‐days of meetings with the feeling that the decisions had already been made. “We were invited down here to have input,” said Governor-elect James Longley of Maine as he left a briefing session at the Interior Department’s auditorium “but instead we were told.”
President Ford personally rebuked General George Brown for his critical comments about American Jews but said later that he had “no intention” of replacing him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Ford reaffirmed his support of General Brown at a news conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Earlier in the day he had summoned General Brown to the Oval Office to reprimand him for his comments at Duke University last month suggesting that the Jewish community had undue influence in Congress and controlled banks and newspapers.
Renouncing her days as a militant radical, 27-year-old Jane Alpert gave herself up to federal authorities in New York City, more than four years after she jumped bail and disappeared following her conviction for a series of local bombings in 1969. “This is the happiest day of my life,” she said. Jane Lauren Alpert, a former member of the U.S. left-wing terrorist group Weather Underground and a fugitive for four-and-a-half years after posting a bail bond and failing to appear for her sentencing in 1970 for conspiracy to bomb two U.S. government buildings, voluntarily surrendered at the federal prosecutor’s office in New York City. She would be released in 1977 after 27 months’ imprisonment.
A proposal to buy chemically equivalent prescription drugs instead of more expensive brand-name ones was announced by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW estimated the plan could eventually save taxpayers and private patients more than $400 million a year. The proposed Maximum Allowable Cost project, which would not take effect until next summer at the earliest, is designed to limit the profits that pharmacies and drug companies make in sales to the government.
An attorney for former President Richard M. Nixon charged that the new White House agreement allowing Watergate prosecutors to search the Nixon files without his permission was illegal and asked U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey to stop the practice until a court decision was made on the ownership of the material. Judge Richey set a hearing on the matter for today.
A request by Martha Mitchell for increased temporary alimony was denied in New York State Supreme Court. Justice Manuel A. Gomez refused the request for a $3,000 increase in the $1,000-a-week alimony former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell now pays. Mrs. Mitchell’s attorney had asked Gomez for permission to reargue the case for more alimony and $35,000 in legal fees. The lawyer’s fee was cut to $3,500.
The Boston Zoning Commission voted to set aside two downtown blocks for adult entertainment and restrict the spread of porno shops, sex films and girlie shows in other parts of the city. Robert T. Kenney, the city’s redevelopment director, called the decision “a first step toward keeping adult entertainment areas out of the residential neighborhoods.” The new district will be in a place called the Combat Zone — an area already dominated by adult theaters, stripper bars, and adult book stores.
Higher food stamp benefits, including a $4 per month boost for a family of four, will go into effect January 1 for 14.3 million persons, the Agriculture Department announced. Government figures, however, show the increase already has been eaten up by spiraling food prices. Families also will be allowed to earn slightly more in 1975 and still qualify. A four-member family, for example, will be able to earn $513 a month, compared with a current $500. Economy food, such as beans, potatoes and cereals, is used to set food stamp allowances. The new amount for January 1 will be $154 for the family of four.
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that military jets be barred from practicing interception missions in air lanes used by civilian aircraft. It came as a result of an in-flight collision last month between a New Jersey National Guard F-106 fighter and a private plane over Pocomoke Sound off the Virginia shore. The crash killed Robert Axley, 39, a New York bank executive, and his wife and daughter. The military jet landed safely.
A Library of Congress study concludes that pending anti-abortion legislation is unconstitutional. Officials of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and some private groups also have attacked the legislation on humanitarian and administrative grounds. The measure, a Senate amendment to a $33 billion appropriations bill for HEW and the Labor Department, says the appropriated money cannot be used for an abortion except to save the life of the mother.
The Atomic Energy Commission has been accused by the Union of Concerned Scientists of creating a massive coverup of scientific information about the potential dangers of nuclear power plants. The group, a coalition of scientists, engineers and other professionals, said AEC documents, leaked to them by agency staff members, showed several safety problems with nuclear reactors and proved that the agency had been concealing information from the public, the courts, legislators and successive administrations. The group sent a letter to President Gerald Ford, asking for suspension of plans to build additional plants and help in correcting the alleged abuses.
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Born:
Adam Walsh, American child whose kidnap and murder aged 6 in Florida led to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, in Hollywood, Florida (d. 1981).
Matt Cedeño, American actor (‘Brandon Walker’ – “Days of Our Lives”), in Moses Lake, Washington.
Mikhael Ricks, NFL tight end and wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions), in Galveston, Texas.
Perry Phenix, NFL defensive back (Tennessee Oilers-Titans, Carolina Panthers), in Monroe, Louisiana.
Died:
Omar Al Saqqaf, 51, Saudi Arabian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, died of a cerebral thrombosis.
Aleksandr Panyushkin, 69, Soviet Ambassador to the United States from 1947 to 1952.
Johnny Mack Brown, 70, American football halfback and actor known primarily for Western films (“Lawman is Born”, “Back Trail”), of kidney failure.
F. Trubee Davison, 78, American World War I aviator, government official, and former president of the American Museum of Natural History.
James Phelan, 81, American football coach for Purdue University and the University of Washington, and later coach in the AAFC and the NFL.
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