Voting was held in Greece for all 300 seats of the Hellenic Parliament in the first election since 1964. Premier Konstantinos Karamanlis of Greece won an overwhelming victory in his country’s first democratic election in more than a decade. His New Democracy party, which he founded less than two months ago, received about 55 percent of the nationwide vote, and won 220 of the seats, with the Centre Union – New Forces party of Georgios Mavros in second place with 60 seats. Trailing badly in third place was the Pan‐Hellenic Socialist Movement of Andreas Papandreou, who taught economics at several American universities. Mr. Papandreou had hoped to challenge the Center Union, but his party was winning only about 13 percent of the vote. Both Mr. Papandreou and the Communists, who finished a distant fourth, had campaigned against Greece’s ties with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the presence of American military bases here, Mr. Karamanlis, who had withdraw Greek troops from the NATO Command, might now feel free to resume full membership in the alliance.
Britain’s 225,000 miners have rejected proposals for a productivity deal aimed at securing 120 million tons of coal a year. The scheme, pegged to an extra $28.75 a week in wages, had been attacked bitterly by the militant left wing of the National Union of Mineworkers. Miners feared that the plan, stressing individual productivity, would undermine union solidarity as well as lead to increased danger by encouraging disregard of safety for the sake of earning more money.
Gunmen firing from a speeding car killed a 20-year-old man and wounded a woman and a teenaged boy as the victims walked along a Belfast street, Northern Ireland police said. The gunmen sprayed two pedestrians with machine-gun fire and then farther along the street opened up on three other persons. The dead man and the wounded were Protestants.
Berlin police said a woman had been detained “temporarily” in connection with the fatal shooting a week ago of Guenter von Drenkmann, West Berlin’s chief Supreme Court justice. The woman reportedly was arrested on suspicion of being an accessory to murder. Under West German law, she must be released if she is not arraigned within 48 hours.
Pope Paul VI deplored the “current fearful string” of kidnappings in Italy and said the “fabulous ransom sums involved in the abductions become cursed in the bandit’s hands.” He appealed to kidnappers to return hostages to their families immediately. He was speaking to a crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his regular Sunday blessing. There have been four kidnappings in Italy in the past three days.
One of Spain’s most prominent rightists is leading a powerful new group of Civil War veterans in opposition to efforts to liberalize the authoritarian regime. The confederation’s leader is Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, heavyset man of 63 who for 16 years was General Franco’s Minister of Labor. He assumes the new post just as the government is completing a measure to allow political associations to operate legally. The measure, which is expected to decreed into law in the next few weeks by General Franco, represents potentially the most important political change in Spain since the end of the civil war.
Sadi Irmak succeeded Bülent Ecevit as Prime Minister of Turkey.
Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l).
Three Soviet Jews who were once prominent film workers announced a five-day hunger strike starting today to coincide with the London Film Festival — at which Soviet films will be shown-to back demands for exit permits. Two of the group, film cameraman Mikhail Suslov and cartoon scenarist Felix Kandel-Kamov, staged a 12-day hunger strike last month coinciding with the San Francisco Film Festival, which also featured Soviet entries.
The tension that gripped Israel’s Golan Heights front over the weekend subsided following assurances from the United States that Syria does not intend to start an attack against Israel. Israeli armed forces remained partly mobilized and still on general alert, but the atmosphere on the Golan Heights and throughout the country relaxed dramatically. The American assurances were conveyed Saturday by Secretary of State Kissinger to Simcha Dinitz, the Israeli Ambassador in Washington.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) drove into Jordan across the Allenby Bridge from Israel for a meeting today with King Hussein, sources said in Amman. Kennedy, who spent two days in Israel, will also have talks with Crown Prince Hassan and Premier Zeid Rifai. Kennedy then is scheduled to depart for Cairo, where he is expected to meet President Anwar Sadat. Speaking in Beersheba before leaving for Jordan, the senator said, “We will not be deterred by the economics of oil,” and he added that “our commitment to Israel’s independent future will endure.”
Four empty Egyptian ships are passing slowly south through the Suez Canal, the first civilian vessels to do so since the canal, still strewn with bombs, was closed by war and the aftermath of war more than seven years ago. The ships left Port Said on the Mediterranean yesterday and have reached Lake Timsah, a widening in the canal at Ismailia, halfway down the 100-mile waterway. They were believed to be pausing there today, awaiting the removal of the largest remaining obstruction, a concrete caisson farther south. Experts of the United States naval task force that has been taking part in the canal‐clearing operations with Egyptian, British, and French naval forces were set to blow up the caisson, then lift the pieces cut with floating cranes. The operation was scheduled to be completed today or tomorrow, according to American officers.
The Rev. Trần Hữu Thành, leader of South Vietnam’s Anti-Corruption Movement, held the last of a weeklong series of Masses and rallies aimed at building up opposition to President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. More than 1,000 persons, including several Catholic and Buddhist opposition deputies, attended a Mass in Saigon followed by a rally marking the third anniversary of the movement.
Congressional auditors said the Defense Department “distorted the true amount of military assistance” it has given South Vietnam by failing to credit $2 million worth of scrap metal donated to Saigon. The South Vietnamese sold the scrap metal for $3.9 million. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin), who released the auditor’s report, said the $2 million should have been included in the total given the South Vietnamese in military assistance. He called it another example “of how the Pentagon has tried to stuff more military aid into Vietnam than the law allows.”
The Soviet press has broadened its propaganda campaign against China to accuse Peking of engaging in large‐scale narcotics trafficking to earn huge profits in foreign currency. A commentary in the official Communist party newspaper Pravda today contended that the Chinese leadership wanted to preserve Macao as a Portuguese colony because the enclave, on China’s southeastern coast, was a key outlet for an opium‐smuggling operation by Peking in South and Southeast Asia. The current issue of a magazine published by the Komsomol, or young Communist League, carries an article on narcotics traffic charging that China built up her arsenal of nuclear weapons with the help of narcotics sales. The article, in Molodaya Gvardiya, asserts that China’s trade in narcotics has grown to more than double her official foreign trade turnover and that the Chinese are responsible for the most of the heroin that is sold in the United States.
President Ford departed for Japan, the first leg of an eight-day journey to East Asia, after defining his travels as both timely and as a step toward preserving world peace. “I think this trip has great significance, both as to timing and as to substance,” Mr. Ford said in a brief departure ceremony on the White House lawn. “This I think can be defined as a quest for peace to broaden it, to strengthen it.” Secretary of State Kissinger, who is accompanying the President, told reporters on the way to Anchorage, where Mr. Ford’s plane stopped at Elmendorf Air Force Base for refueling and a brief speech by the President, that he expected Mr. Ford and Mr. Brezhnev to make substantial progress toward the control of strategic arms.
Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, left by air today for an undisclosed destination after a four-day visit to Cuba.
The Brazilian opposition Democratic Movement today headed toward a sweeping victory in the election for one‐third of Brazil’s Senate scats, leading in 16 of 22 states. With 30 percent of the votes counted from last Friday’s election, the opposition was leading the Government party, the National Renewal Alliance, by a 2 to 1 margin. This show of strength by the Democratic Movement will not mean any change in Brazil’s military‐led Government because the Congress has virtually no power. However, the opposition will have a stronger voice with which to criticize government policy.
The body of Eva Duarte Perón, arrived home today after 19 years abroad and was placed beside that of her husband, Juan Domingo Perón. The service followed an emotional turnout, by Argentines who threw flowers and shouted, “Evita, Evita, we feel you are present.” Mrs. Perón died of cancer in 1952 at the age of 33. Her body was secretly placed in the graveyard of an Italian convent after General Perón was toppled in 1955 from power in Argentina. In 1971 it was moved to Madrid, where General Perón lived before he returned to power in Argentina.
With President Ford’s conditional amnesty plan now two months old, only a small fraction of the Vietnam draft evaders and deserters have responded. The war resisters and their advisers say it is because of distrust of the government, though the reasons for the distrust and intensity vary.
The announcement last week that Chrysler, Detroit’s largest employer, might shut down virtually its entire automobile assembly operations for the month of December has increased anxiety in the city, which is already suffering from a 40 percent decline in car sales and more than 80,000 layoffs of auto workers.
Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton appeared to back away from the strong interest he had expressed last week in a big increase in the federal gasoline tax. However, other administration sources say that the tax idea is not dead and might be revived early next year, despite President Ford’s repeated statements he has ruled out any such tax. The President’s disapproval apparently made Mr. Morton change his mind. He said on the “Face the Nation” television program that he has “gotten the word.”
Documents obtained by Ralph Nader’s Tax Reform Research Group show that a special unit of Internal Revenue Service investigators, organized during the Nixon administration, included among 99 “ideological, militant, subversive and radical organizations” the Americans for Democratic Action, the Urban League and the National Council of Churches. The documents were obtained from the I.R.S. following the filing of a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.
New Haven’s (Connecticut) anti-poverty program, the first in the country and the model for hundreds of similar programs in many cities, is in deep trouble. According to federal officials who have been investigating it for months, the New Haven program has deteriorated into fiscal and administrative chaos and has become little more than a political pork barrel dominated by the city’s powerful Democratic machine.
Serial killer Paul John Knowles, who had murdered 18 people since his escape from jail on July 26, was captured by a civilian in Henry County, Georgia. David Clark, a Vietnam War veteran and hospital maintenance worker, had been on a hunting trip when he encountered Knowles, who was fleeing police, and held him at gunpoint until officers could arrive at the scene. The day before, Knowles had kidnapped and murdered his last two victims, a Florida state trooper and a motorist whom he had taken hostage. Knowles himself would be shot to death on December 18 after attempting to disarm a sheriff.
Former Teamsters boss James R. Hoffa reportedly will try to win election to a Detroit local union office next month, resign the post if he wins and then use his demonstrated popularity to make a bid to regain the union’s international presidency in 1976. A story in the Detroit News said the maneuvers were an attempt to side-step restrictions placed on Hoffa when former President Richard M. Nixon commuted his prison term for jury tampering in 1971. The commutation carried a ban on union activities until May 6, 1980.
The chairman of the nation’s Democratic governors called on his party’s leaders in Congress to pass “significant bills that deal with inflation” rather than waiting for the new Congress that will convene in January. As more than 30 Democratic governors gathered in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for three days of meetings, Gov. Wendell R. Anderson of Minnesota urged Congress to pass tax reform, energy conservation, mass transit and housing measures in the lame-duck session beginning today.
A suspended patrolman who has been called a paranoid by two psychiatrists was fired in Portland, Maine, for allegedly attempting to organize a police death squad to kill repeat offenders. By unanimous vote, a civil service commission found Robert Foster, 27, guilty of unbecoming conduct and harboring attitudes unfit for a person entrusted with the protection of society. Foster contended that he had meant the idea “just as a practical joke.” No criminal charges have been filed, although authorities said a special grand jury might be convened to weigh the evidence.
A federal mediator said he was hopeful that continuing negotiations would avoid a strike against Greyhound Bus Lines, scheduled to begin at noon today. The mediator, Guy Parent, said “significant progress” was being made but did not give details. It would be the first nationwide agreement, previous contracts having been drawn up on a divisional basis. Officials said the strike would halt all Greyhound operations, idling 16,000 employees belonging to 30 locals. The AFL-CIO Amalgamated Transit Union represents bus drivers, terminal workers, maintenance, and office employees.
The 55-mph speed limit on the nation’s highways accounted for nearly half of the 23% reduction in U.S. traffic fatalities this year, according to a study by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Reduced travel accounted for less than one-fifth of the drop in traffic deaths, the study found. The number of highway fatalities dropped from about 26,000 during the first half of 1973 to about 20,000 in the first six months of this year, the study said. The association, representing all 50 state highway departments, voted at its annual meeting in favor of retaining the lower speed limit. “I think it’s obvious that there are considerable advantages to lower speed limits,” said George Andrews, outgoing association president.
Natural gas shortages will be severe this winter but most other fuels will be in sufficient supply, industry and government officials predicted, Natural gas deficiencies twice as severe as last winter will cause industrial shortages, but few if any gas-heated homes will be affected because they have priority in receiving gas supplies, the Federal Power Commission said. Coal, oil and electric supplies are adequate for projected demands, government and power industry officials said.
An environmental impact statement, which accompanies the National Park Service’s controversial Yosemite National Park master plan, was rejected by the Interior Department. It will have to be reconsidered by the park service before public hearings can be held on it. The still secret draft master plan is opposed by conservationists wary of plans announced by Yosemite’s new concessionaire, the Music Corp. of America, to increase convention use of the 759,000-acre park and replace some of Yosemite Valley’s cheap but scenic tent cabins with more expensive multistory motel cabins.
Suspected cancer-causing agents in drinking water should be the subject of stepped-up investigation by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the National Cancer Institute, a congressman said. Rep. Paul Rogers (D-Florida) is preparing a letter urging study of all drinking water drawn from the Mississippi River. Scientists last week reported finding suspected cancer-causing agents in New Orleans drinking water, which is largely drawn from the Mississippi River. Rogers is a major supporter of a House bill that would set the first federal standards for drinking water.
Stripper Fanne Fox will have both a new billing, “The Washington Tidal Basin Bombshell,” and a new salary, $3,500 a week, when she opens tonight in Boston. It means that her recent escapade with Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Arkansas) will bring her a higher fee at the Pilgrim Theatre than top burlesque queens. The Bombshell, in private life Annabel Battistella, 38, made front pages when policemen in Washington stopped Mills’ car and she jumped into the Tidal Basin. That has led to Boston and on to a seven-city tour at inflation-setting wages. And she knows exactly whom to thank. “I love Mr. Mills and Mrs. Mills very much. I will love them the rest of my life. You don’t get too many like the Millses…”
Swedish pop group ABBA begins their first international tour at the Kalkonerteater in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bonnie Bryant becomes the only left-handed player in history to win an LPGA Tour event; scores a 3-stroke victory in the Bill Branch Golf Classic in Fort Myers, Florida.
NFL Football:
Buffalo Bills 28, Miami Dolphins 35
Dallas Cowboys 21, Washington Redskins 28
Los Angeles Rams 7, New Orleans Saints 20
San Francisco 49ers 34, Chicago Bears 0
San Diego Chargers 10, Oakland Raiders 17
New York Giants 19, Detroit Lions 20
Baltimore Colts 17, Atlanta Falcons 7
Pittsburgh Steelers 26, Cleveland Browns 16
Green Bay Packers 19, Minnesota Vikings 7
St. Louis Cardinals 13, Philadelphia Eagles 3
Cincinnati Bengals 3, Houston Oilers 20
New York Jets 21, New England Patriots 16
The Miami Dolphins topped the Buffalo Bills, 35–28, to gain undisputed possession of first place in the AFC East. The Bills, who had been tied with the Dolphins before the game, now trail by one game. The Patriots, who were upset by the Jets, are two games behind Miami with four left to play on the regular schedule. With the score tied, 28–28, 56 seconds from the final gun, it appeared that the Bills and Dolphins might continue tied for the division lead. But Bob Griese needed only 37 seconds to march the Dolphins 81 yards in four plays and claim the victory. He gained 31 yards with a pass to Paul Warfield, 12 more on a toss to Jim Klick and then gave the ball to Kiick for an 11-yard run, putting the ball at the Buffalo 23-yard line. With the Bills expecting a pass, Griese called a draw play and gave the ball to Don Nottingham. The substitute fullback dashed untouched through the middle of the Buffalo line and into the end zone with only 19 seconds remaining. Afterward, Griese admitted that the play was designed to gain long yardage or else set up a field goal on the next play.
The Dallas – Washington game today came in two parts divided by the half-time intermission. In Part I Washington scored 28 points and Dallas none. In Part II Washington scored no points and Dallas 21. But the Cowboys almost, by a lack of 6 yards, scored again which with the extra point, would have tied the exciting game and sent it into overtime. So it was a victory for the Redskins, 28–21, and another amazing triumph for a team which lives so dangerously Sunday after Sunday. The Dallas players felt the sting of defeat, their fifth in 10 games by a combined total of only 23 points. On the bus, riding to National Airport after the game, one player after another was overheard to say: “Oh, 6 yards, just 6 yards.” The defeat all but eradicated the Cowboys’ chance of making the National Football League’s playoffs in which they have been a participant every year since 1966. As for the Redskins they remained one game behind St. Louis in the Eastern Division of the National Conference and they probably will make the playoffs as the N.F.C. wild-card team should they fail to catch up with the Cardinals. The big moments of this contest came near the end when Dallas had a first down on the Washington 7-yard line. Bob Newhouse gained 1 yard to the 6 in two carries and then came two incomplete passes by Roger Staubach. It became Washington’s ball and Washington’s game. The rabid crowd of 54,395 went wild. Sonny Jurgensen came in for the first time as quarterback but the Redskins had to punt after three downs. The Cowboys got the ball back with 45 seconds to go on their own 18-yard-line but could not move from there.
The New Orleans Saints prevented the Los Angeles Rams from clinching the Western Division title with a new offensive formation that produced two touchdown passes by Archie Manning and a 20–7 upset. With four wide receivers and only one running back, the Saints scored on a 79-yard pass to Bob Newland, a 17-yard toss to Joel Parker and field goals of 28 and 51 yards by Bill McClard. The Rams could not score until the fourth period when James Harris hit Bob Klein with a 15-yard touchdown pass.
The San Francisco 49ers snapped their seven-game losing streak, the longest in their history, and extended Chicago’s streak of quarters without a touchdown to 19, as San Francisco routed the Bears, 34–0. Tom Owen started at quarterback and the rookie gained 316 yards on 15 completions in 26 attempts. He threw touchdown passes of 68 yards to Terry Beasley and 20 yards to Ted Kwalick and scored himself on a 1-yard dive. Two more touchdowns were added on short runs by rookie running backs Sammy Johnson and Delvin Williams.
The Oakland Raiders rolled to their ninth consecutive triumph, downing the San Diego Chargers, 17–10, and are on the verge of clinching the Western Division crown. If Denver loses to Kansas City tonight, Oakland will win the division for the third straight season. Ken Stabler threw a touchdown pass to Cliff Branch covering 60 yards for the quarterback’s 18th scoring pass of the season, Pete Banaszak picked up another Oakland touchdown on a 1-yard lunge, and George Blanda kicked a 28-yard field goal.
The New York Giants again saw victory snatched from their grip, this time in the final 2 seconds today on a 37-yard field goal by Errol Mann that brought the Detroit Lions a 20–19 triumph. Bill Munson, the Lion quarterback, engineered a frantic 60-yard drive that began with 1 minute 58 seconds left at the Detroit 20. The 33-year-old Munson completed five of nine passes, including a 19-yarder over the middle to Ron Jessie on fourth-and-5 from the Lion 25 and a 15-yarder to a leaping Charlie Sanders on third-and-10 from the Giant 44. It was the third straight week that the Giants had been involved in beat the clock with an opposing quarterback. They stopped Len Dawson of Kansas City at the 1-yard line for a 33–27 victory but were beaten in sudden-death overtime by Joe Namath of the Jets last week. “I felt if we had played the whole game the way we played the second half, it would have been a different game,” Coach Bill Arnsparger said of the Giants’ eighth defeat in 10 starts, which slid them to the bottom of the National Football League along with Atlanta and Baltimore.
The Baltimore Colts, who have never lost to Atlanta in a regular-season game, snapped a three-game losing streak, downing the Falcons, 17–7, as Lydell Mitchell gained 151 yards to become Baltimore’s sixth-best career ground gainer. The Falcons, losing for the fifth straight time, scored on a 23-yard run by Haskel Stanback to take a 7–3 lead in the second quarter. But Marty Domres lifted the Colts to a 10–7 half-time lead on a 12-yard quarterback keeper. Baltimore scored the clinching touchdown with 4:44 left to play on a 1-yard plunge by Bill Olds. The Colts first 3 points came on a 37-yard field goal by Toni Linhart.
The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cleveland Browns, 26–16, and took a 1½-game lead over Cincinnati for first place in the Central Division on four field goals by Roy Gerela, a 14-yard touchdown run by J. T. Thomas with a recovered fumble and a 28-yard scoring pass from Terry Hanratty to Ron Shanklin. Beating the Browns in Cleveland for the first time in 10 years, the Steelers were paced by Franco Harris, who gained more than 100 yards for the 11th time in his career. A crowd of 77,739 witnessed a sloppy game which had 13 turnovers.
The Green Bay Packers built a 12-0 lead on four field goals by Chester Marcol, then traded scoring passes with the Minnesota Vikings in the final period to win, 19–7, and chop Minnesota’s advantage in the Central Division to two games with four to play. Marcol booted the ball through the uprights from 28, 32, 19 and 18 yards. Then Fran Tarkenton cut the lead to 12-7 with a 25-yard touchdown pass to Chuck Foreman. But the Packers responded with a 68-yard scoring aerial from John Hadl to MacArthur Lane.
The St. Louis Cardinals downed the Philadelphia Eagles, 13–3. The Cardinals shook off a two-game losing streak and retained their lead in the Eastern Division with an 8–2 won-lost record. The Cardinal defense completely throttled the Eagles, sacking Roman Gabriel nine times for a loss of 57 yards and intercepting one. Philadelphia could gain only 71 yards on the ground and 170 passing. The Cardinals scored the game’s only touchdown in the first quarter on a 67-yard drive in six plays, Jim Hart carried the ball over from the 1-yard line.
The Houston Oilers beat the Cincinnati Bengals, 20–3. For the first time since 1962, Houston achieved its fourth straight victory, beating the Bengals for the second time in four weeks. The Bengals could score only on Horst Muhlmann’s 28-yard field goal, which gave them a brief 3–0 lead. Despite gaining 203 yards on 21 of 36 pass completions, Ken Anderson could not lead the Bengals over the Houston goal line. The Oilers have gone 10 quarters without allowing a touchdown.
Having ignored the pass interception as a defensive strategy most of the season, the Jets finally put it into their game plan today and stole a 21–16 victory from the New England Patriots. The Jets, who had picked off only five opposition passes in their first nine games, intercepted four thrown by Jim Plunkett, two in the end zone. The last, by Roscoe Word in the end zone, saved the game for the Jets, who now have won two games in a row for the first time in two years, because New England had the ball at the New York 9-yard line with 1:45 to play. The Patriots, who humiliated the Jets, 24–0, five weeks ago, had one final chance, but Plunkett’s last-play pass from the Jet 43 fell through the hands of Eddie Hinton, a Patriot receiver, in the end zone. “I couldn’t see it,” Coach Charley Winner said of Plunkett’s desperation effort, “but I was saying a few prayers.” Thus, the Patriots saw their playoff hopes, once so bright, severely damaged as they suffered their third straight loss and fourth in the last five games. In gaining their third victory against seven defeats, the Jets got two touchdown passes from Joe Namath, an 11-yarder to Bob Burns that put them ahead, 7–0, in the first quarter and a 34-yarder to David Knight that raised their margin to 21–13 in the final minute of the third period. In between those two scores, Namath completed three passes for 42 yards in a 66-yard drive that culminated in Emerson Boozer’s 4-yard scoring scamper. However, two Interceptions of Namath passes —his 18th and 19th of the season — helped the Patriots threaten the Jets in the final quarter.
Born:
Marc Edwards, NFL fullback (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 36-Patriots, 2001; San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars, Chicago Bears), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Robert Hicks, NFL tackle (Buffalo Bills), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lamanzer Williams, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Greensboro, Arkansas.
Jim Mann, MLB pitcher (New York Mets, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates), in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Leslie Bibb, American actress (“Palm Royale”), in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Died:
Clive Brook, 87, English actor and director (“List of Adrian Messenger”, “On Approval”).
Erskine Childers, 68, President of Ireland since 1973, died of a heart attack while attending a conference of the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.
[Ed: Playing against the Steel Curtain was no joke.]
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