Senator Walter F. Mondale (D-Minnesota) left the Soviet Union saying he was not satisfied with the efforts the Russians are making to achieve détente with the United States. He said he sought clarification from Kremlin leaders whether Russia is camouflaging strategic weapons installations in violation of a 1972 agreement. He said the Soviet leaders, including Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, charged that the United States is camouflaging some of its missile silos.
The Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition was adopted by representatives of 135 nations at the World Food Conference in Rome.
The World Food Conference at the final session of its 11-day meeting in Rome approved the formation of a new United Nations agency that will supervise programs intended to give the world — particularly less developed nations — more and better food. The agency will be called the World Food Council. It will have a secretariat in Rome, associated with the Food and Agriculture Organization, but it will report to the United Nations in New York.
A representative of the Vanguard Party of hard-line Protestants in the Northern Ireland Assembly said he led a team of militants to Tripoli for talks with Libyan leaders who have in the past voiced support for the mainly Roman Catholic Irish Catholic Army. Glen Barr, whose team included members of the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Defense Assn., told newsmen in Belfast: “The Libyans were very interested in our proposal for an independent Northern Ireland and I think we were successful in putting our cases across.”
The Army and the Air Force have been using tax money illegally to transport wine and liquor to clubs and messes in Europe, according to Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin). He based his charge on a letter from the General Accounting Office to the secretary of defense. The Pentagon denied Aspin’s allegation, saying shipping charges were paid by the clubs and messes even when government transportation was used.
Police in Milan said four masked men in a car pulled up alongside Nicoletta di Nardi, 11, and her sister as they walked along a busy suburban street. Two of the men jumped out, shoved Nicoletta into the car and fled. The car was later found parked in a nearby street, empty except for the girl’s school books and gym shoes. Nicoletta was the fourth kidnaping victim in Italy in four days and the 36th this year.
U.S. Ambassador to Italy John Volpe denied in an interview with a Turin newspaper that he or the U.S. government had interfered in Italian domestic politics. His remarks followed a wave of criticism against the United States by Italian leftists who accused it of meddling in Italy’s political affairs.
The Soviet authorities have held a series of trials in Armenia to crush a separatist movement existing in the Caucasian republic, the physicist Andrei D. Sakharov has reported.
Reports of Israeli mobilization of reserves and military movements toward the borders of Lebanon and Syria brought a war scare today to the Middle East. Military activity in the Middle East precipitated warnings and expressions of concern in Tel Aviv, the Arab capitals and Washington and the United Nations. Tension and talk of war increased during the day, but both sides denied any hostile intent on their part, saying they were merely reacting to intentions of the other. In Damascus, Abdel Halim Khaddam, the Syrian Foreign Minister, said that Israel, which has partly Mobilized her reserve forces was planning an attack against his country He said Syrian forces were ‘ready, and would retaliate ‘firmly and strongly against any Israeli aggression.”
Informed sources said the Syrian armed forces had been placed on a “higher state” of alert. Newspapers close to the Palestinian guerrillas said in Beirut that an Israeli attack was imminent in southern Lebanon, where the guerrillas have bases. In Cairo, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ismail Fahmy, canceled all previously made appointments for the day and held urgent meetings with the Soviet and American Ambassadors to tell them of his Government’s concern.
The Israeli Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, described a partial mobilization of Israel’s reserves and Israeli movements in the Golan Heights as a response to “unexplained movements” by Syrian forces. Statements by Mr. Peres on television, and in a meeting with Israeli military correspondents were the first official confirmation by the Israeli Government of a partial mobilization yesterday of the Israeli reserve forces. For 48 hours previously, military censorship here prevented the developments from being officially made public. The only related news that could clear censorship had references to foreign sources, such as statements by Secretary of State Kissinger that reports of imminent warfare were exaggerated.
An Arab girl was killed, scores of people were injured and 50 were arrested as riots swept through the West Bank of the Jordan, The Associated Press reported.
Through urgent diplomatic consultations, the U.S. Ford Administration sought today to calm the political and military tensions in the Middle East caused by Israel’s partial mobilization of her reserve forces.
U.N. Secretary General Waldheim today voiced concern over the latest developments in the Middle East and he consulted with the Arab states and Israel. A United Nations spokesman said that, at this stage, the Secretary General’s worries were caused by political rather than military factors.
Four Egyptian passenger ships entered the Suez Canal, the first commercial vessels to do so since the Six-Day War in 1967.
Ninety-one young men accused of trying to overthrow the Egyptian Government turned the first day of their trial today into a demonstration of religious fanaticism.
About 10,000 Indians and Eskimos have agreed to accept $150 million from the Quebec provincial government in return for a promise not to block development of the massive James Bay hydroelectric power plant in northern Quebec. The agreement calls for the government to pay 6,000 Cree and 4,000 Eskimos $150 million tax-free as compensation for lands lost to the project and disruption of their way of life.
The West German freighter Westfalia has been fined $20,000 for an oil spill last year in the harbor at Vancouver, B.C., according to Canada’s Ministry of Transport. The German company that owns the ship had already paid $55,000 to clean up the harbor. The fine was the highest ever levied for an oil spill on the West Coast.
Peru’s leftist military regime has asked U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to leave the country, and sources said 36 of the 137 in Lima already have departed and the rest will leave within three months. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy or Peace Corps officials.
Amid ongoing political violence in Argentina, the body of Eva Perón, the former First Lady of Argentina, arrived by plane in Buenos Aires, having been repatriated from Spain on the orders of Isabel Perón, the President of Argentina and widow of Eva’s husband, Juan Perón. Eva would be interred beside her husband the following day.
Recent pronouncements, enigmatic though they were, by Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa and other leaders of the National party brought a flurry of speculation and of optimism that the White-supremacy policies — apartheid or separate development of the races — might undergo important alterations. Their comments raised related questions: What is the real status of the more than 19 million people who have black or brown skins in South Africa and what is the state of mind of their four million white neighbors?
President Ford, retaliating against Canadian quotas limiting imports of United States cattle and meat, imposed a quota system on shipments of beef and pork from Canada, charging that it had placed “unjustifiable import restrictions” against United States products.
The Democratic National Committee proposed a tentative economic program that would prepare the way for congressional action on mandatory wage and price controls and fuel conservation as an alternative to the policies of the Ford administration. The program, prefaced by a stinging attack on President Ford’s leadership, was prepared by the Democratic Advisory Council of Elected Officials, an affiliate of the National Committee.
Because of the murder Friday night of a union official, a spokesman for the United Mine Workers said that efforts to obtain ratification of the tentative agreement with the coal industry would be delayed at least until Tuesday. Instead of resuming deliberations on the contract, the 38-member bargaining council held a brief memorial service this morning for Sam Littlefield, president of the union’s District 20 In Alabama, who was shot in a robbery attempt at his Washington hotel. It is virtually certain that a third crucial week will be added to the nationwide strike that began last Monday.
Colleges across the country are adopting strategies ranging from the destruction of documents to congressional lobbying to avoid what they describe as “unintended” and “unethical” consequence of a new federal law giving parents and students the right to examine school files. A major objection to the law, which becomes effective Tuesday, is that it seems to require educational institutions to make available letters of recommendation and other documents that were solicited under a pledge of confidentiality. Senator James Buckley, Conservative-Republican of New York, sponsored the legislation, which is an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary School Act. Supporters of the new law concede that some of its language needs clarification.
A highway patrol officer was abducted at gunpoint outside Perry, Florida, setting off a massive manhunt through Florida, Alabama and Georgia for a man wanted in connection with three slayings, an attempted rape and another abduction. Officials said Trooper C.E. Campbell, 35, apparently had been seized by Paul John Knowles, 28, when he stopped Knowles for questioning. The patrol car was found abandoned in a wooded area. FBI agents said Knowles had been charged with the November 6 stabbing death of Carswell Carr, 45, with a pair of scissors and the strangulation of Carr’s daughter Mandy, 15, in Milledgeville, Georgia. He was also wanted in the abduction of a woman in West Palm Beach, and attempted rape of an English tourist and a slaying in Brewton, Alabama. Knowles escaped from a Jacksonville area jail July 26 when serving time for breaking and entering.
Two airmen, Dale S. Pierre, 21, of Brooklyn, and William A. Andrews, 19, of Dallas, were convicted in the robbery, torture and murder of five persons in the basement of an Ogden, Utah, stereo store. A jury failed to reach a decision on murder charges against a third airman who was convicted of robbery — Keith Leon Roberts, Lawton, Oklahoma. All three men were stationed at Hill Air Force Base when the crime occurred April 22. The victims were herded into the basement, bound and forced to drink drain cleaner before being shot in the head. One victim was sexually assaulted and one was strangled.
Two federal mediators entered talks between union representatives and Greyhound Corp. in an effort to prevent a walkout Monday by 16,000 employees. A union spokesman said bus drivers had voted overwhelmingly to strike unless agreement on a new contract was reached promptly. A walkout would virtually shut down Greyhound bus operations in the continental United States, the spokesman said. Neither the union nor Greyhound would say what the union was seeking.
Big city television stations will still be barred from carrying network programs during one hour of prime viewing time next season, but the Federal Communications Commission has somewhat relaxed the controversial rule it adopted in 1971. The FCC announced that effective September 1, 1975, in the top 50 markets in which there are three or more commercial TV stations, exceptions will provide for presentation of network coverage of fast-breaking news events, political broadcasts, big sporting events, sports events that run over into the blackout hour of prime time and children’s specials and documentaries previously shown on the networks. The four hours of prime time are between 7 PM and 11 PM or 6 PM and 10 PM, and by practice the first hour is nonnetwork time.
A fire that damaged a baggage area at Boston’s Logan International Airport September 16 was caused by a bomb in a suitcase intended for a Trans World Airlines flight bound for Tel Aviv, an airline spokesman reported. Tight security prevented the suitcase from being loaded onto the plane after the bag arrived on an Allegheny flight from New York, he said. In any event, the bomb had been timed to explode while the Boeing 707 jet was on the ground.
Human mothers perhaps can learn a few basics about rearing children by observing chimpanzees. At least that is the opinion of Dr. Jane Goodall, a noted animal behavior specialist who will receive the Boston Museum of Science’s 1974 Bradford Washburn award today. “We do so many things that are biologically incorrect and go against traditional baby primate needs,” she said. Having babies sleep in cribs away from the mother, propping up bottles so infants can feed themselves and ignoring children in playpens are unnatural and separate children from mothers, Dr. Goodall said. Preliminary studies with primates other than man show that such isolation causes behavior changes in offspring that can be noticed years later, she said. Dr. Goodall has been studying chimps for 14 years and hopes to write a book for mothers based on her observations, but she said she would probably need many more years of observations first, because so much is unknown about the animals.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to dump up to 180 million pounds of sewage sludge into an uncontaminated stretch of ocean 12 miles south of Fire Island, New York, next year in an attempt to judge if the sludge is lethal to marine organisms. The move has been advocated by EPA research scientists in Corvallis, Oregon. Several EPA staff scientists have objected to the proposal, but an EPA spokesman denied that the program would harm nearby beaches or do permanent damage to the ocean floor.
Complaints by two military groups prompted state and federal agencies to undertake an air pollution study of the California desert. The San Bernardino County Air Pollution Control District said the study, which will take 15 months and cost about $100,000, was conceived after both Edwards Air Force Base and China Lake Naval Weapons Center both complained of reduced visibility during weapons testing programs. The project will cover an area bounded by Los Padres National Forest on the west, Goldstone Tracking Station on the east, Owens Valley on the north and the San Bernardino Mountains on the south.
Experiments conducted independently on the East and West Coasts have revealed a new kind of atomic particle whose properties are so unexpected that there are differing views as to how it might fit into current theories as to the elementary nature of matter.
The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory on Puerto Rico sent an interstellar radio message towards Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in the area of the constellation Hercules in the stellar view from Earth. Transmitted multiple times at irregular intervals, the “Arecibo message” contained 1,679 (73 x 23) bits of binary code with the hope that if it reached another intelligent civilization, scientists would not only see it as evidence of Earth intelligence, but eventually display the message in picture form on a 73-row and 23-column grid. The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000 CE.
ABBA departs Sweden for their first tour of Europe – their first tour outside of their home country.
NBA Milwaukee Bucks lose their team record 11th straight game, fallimg 92-89 to the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers.
Born:
Brooke Elliott, American TV actress (“Drop Dead Diva”, “Sweet Magnolias”), in Fridley, Minnesota.
Eric Judy, American rock bassist (Modest Mouse), in Issaquah, Washington.
Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer, 2001 World Champion with partner Barbara Fusar-Poli; in Milan, Italy.
Isaac Byrd, NFL wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers-Titans, Carolina Panthers), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Lamont Hall, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints), in Clover, South Carolina.
Mark Corey, MLB pitcher (New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates), in Coudersport, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Erich Lindemann, 74, German-American writer and psychiatrist.
Walther Meissner, 91, German technical physicist.
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