The United States paid $1.98 billion in foreign exchange costs to keep about 300,000 American troops in Europe in the 1974 fiscal year, President Ford disclosed in a message to Congress. The message added that NATO allies other than West Germany would be required to offset that amount by $883 million through arms purchases in the United States and other means. West Germany last April agreed to furnish $2.2 billion in offset costs.
A day-long series of bomb hoaxes disrupted traffic in Belfast, the British army said, with more than 30 alerts blocking road transport, cutting main rail links and forcing the evacuation of homes. The Protestant paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force claimed responsibility for the chaos, describing it as a protest against conditions at Maze Prison which houses convicted and suspected terrorists. Britain, meanwhile, announced plans to build a new $24 million top security prison at a deserted airfield three miles from Maze Prison.
Armed with a new and powerful mandate from the Greek people, Premier Konstantine Karamanlis said today that he would now focus on the “extremely crucial” problems of the future of Cyprus and the reform of the Greek political system. Chatting briefly with reporters this afternoon, the 67‐year‐old Premier called Greece’s parliamentary elections yesterday a “joyful event” after seven years of “tyranny.” Then he added, “Without bloodshed, without upheavals and finally with the free expression of the will of the people, democracy returned to its birthplace.” Analysts in Athens agreed that Greece had voted for stability instead of change, moderation instead of extremism. The Premier’s opponents accused him today of having created a “climate of fear” and Mr. Karamanlis had undoubtedly fostered the idea that he represented the only guarantee against a return to military rule.
The army threw reinforcements into a losing “garbage war” in Paris while Frenchmen rushed to stores for candles and food to cope with a nationwide general strike scheduled for today. Breadlines formed in front of bakeries that are threatened with power cuts. Parisians, meanwhile, kept dumping more trash than the 3,500 troops could handle, and refuse formed barricades across sidewalks, creating a health hazard.
The chauffeur for Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzu fought off four masked men who attempted to kidnap the artist’s children as he drove them to school in Ardea, south of Rome. The kidnappers shot the chauffeur in the throat, seriously wounding him, but fled, leaving the children — a boy, 8, and girl, 6 — beside him as nearby residents rushed up. Thirty-seven persons have been kidnaped in Italy this year and millions of dollars paid in ransom.
The European Common Market gave Italy today another three years to repay a loan she should have paid next month. The Italians asked for the extension of the $1.8‐billion loan became the nation’s many ecomomic woes — especially a $10 billion payments deficit this year — left her unable to pay. The loan, backed by the other eight Common Market countries, originally was for three months. Italy took it out March 18, and then won two three-month postponements until December 18. In today’s four‐hour meeting, Common Market Finance Ministers converted this short‐term loan into a medium‐term loan falling due in three-and-one-half years, in 1978.
Senator James L. Buckley (Cons-R-New York), in Bonn, gave the West German government a list of 6,000 Soviet-German families who reportedly wish to emigrate to West Germany, the Foreign Ministry said. Buckley said he was given the list in Moscow by Soviet human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov. The West German government will give the list to the Red Cross, a spokesman said.
Four Arab guerrillas seized an apartment house in Beisan in northeast Israel early today and were killed by Israeli troops who burst into the building three hours later. Three Israelis were killed in the raid. Reports said an Israeli woman was killed when guerillas broke into the building, firing automatic weapons. Another woman and a man were said to have been killed during the shootout between the guerrillas and the Israeli soldiers. A resident whose window overlooks the building told a reporter that shots awakened him at 4:45 AM. He heard one long burst of fire and then five short ones. Then there was quiet.
At 5:05 AM security forces arrived and cordoned off the area the resident said. Helicopters landed and further explosions were heard from the building. At least 18 Israelis were slightly injured, according to reports. One youth jumped out of a fourth story window and was hospitalized, the reports said. Several tenants escaped during the three‐hour terrorist occupation. They included two children who said their parents had been injured. After the guerrillas were killed, a crowd gathered around the building, shouting hysterically. They obstructed Israeli soldiers and ambulances trying to reach the building, and a fire hose was turned on the crowd, dispersing it. The demonstrators shouted hysterically: “Death to the terrorists.”
Israeli riot policemen and soilders battled stone‐throwing crowds in the former Arab sector of Jerusalem today as demonstrations in favor of Palestinian independence continued on the occupied West Bank for the sixth consecutive day. It was the first time since the demonstrations began Wednesday that the protests had extended to East Jerusalem, Which ltrael has formally annexed. The demonstrations have been the most sustained display of opposition to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank since the riots of 1968. Such acts of opposition have now erupted all over the West Bank in the wake of the Arab summit conference last month at Rabat, Morocco, which Called for establishiment of an independent Palestinian State, and also in conjunction with the debate at the United Nations on Palestine. Helmeted policemen armed with riot clubs and metal shields repeatedly charged the demonstrators and at one point used a water cannon to disperse a crowd that had gathered near the walled Old City.
Secretary General Waldheim spent 35 Minutes this morning listening to the relatives of four slain Israelis protesting the ceremonial welcome accorded here last week to Yasir Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Then, clearly in an effort to maintain an impartial attitude, Mr. Waldheim agreed to a similar private meeting with a group of Palestinians—three of then members of Mr. Arafat’s delegation. The meeting between Mr. Waldheim and the relatives of the Israelis who were killed by Areb terrorists, was arranged by Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of major American Jewish Organizations.
A Soviet naval flotilla, made up of a missile cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine from the Black Sea Fleet, is due to arrive Wednesday for a five-day visit to Latakia, Syria, the port where Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said Friday, 20 Soviet cargo ships were unloading arms.
U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday morning — stilll Monday in the U.S. — to begin an eight-day trip to East Asia. Ford’s visit to Japan was the first ever by an incumbent U.S. President. President Ford was formally greeted by Emperor Hirohito and Premier Kakuei Tanaka of Japan. The welcoming ceremony in the front garden of the state guest house was held under a bright blue sky and before an honor guard from the Japanese Self ‐Defense Forces, whose band serenaded Mr. Ford with the University of Michigan football song, “Hail to the Victors.”
Napoleon Lechoco, the head of the Filipino Political Action Committee in Washington, D.C., held Eduardo Romualdez, the Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States, hostage at gunpoint for over 10 hours at the Philippine Embassy on Embassy Row, demanding that his 16-year-old son in Manila receive an exit visa. This was believed to be the first time a foreign ambassador was held hostage in the United States. Lechoco released Romualdez unharmed and surrendered to police after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos gave assurances that his son could leave the country. Lechoco’s son departed the Philippines for the United States on November 19. The gunman, who had been seeking an exit visa from Manila for a son, had earlier shot a Philippine diplomat. The gunman was taken into custody by Washington police.
At least 44 persons have died of disease and malnutrition in camps for Muslims displaced two months ago when troops swept through central Mindanao hunting for rebels, Red Cross sources said. The deaths were reported in three evacuation centers housing 3,244 refugees, most of them women and children. About half the refugees were reported ill and welfare workers were said to be short of medicines. Ten days ago the government said the evacuees were provided with sufficient food and treatment.
Oil from a troopship sunk 32 years ago is threatening one of the South Pacific’s finest natural harbors with large-scale pollution. The oil is seeping in increasing quantities from the corroding fuel tanks of the 23,000-ton President Coolidge, which hit a mine in 1942 and sank in Santo Harbor, in the New Hebrides. A Fiji salvage company said the New Hebrides government had hired it and another company to find out how much oil remains in the wreck and to work out plans for removing it. The ship was carrying 8,000 troops when it hit the mine. It sank in 30 minutes with only two lives lost.
The Canadian government introduced a $30 billion budget calling for substantial reductions in personal income taxes but an increase in the taxes of big corporations. Other measures were proposed to spur an economy that “shows signs of slowing down,” the Finance Minister said.
Members of the Parliament today joined Canadian cattlemen in vigorously denouncing the United States’ decision Saturday’to reduce sharply its imports of beef and pork from Canada.
Urban guerrillas set off at least 15 bombs in Mexican banks, department stores and government offices in the biggest surge of anti-government and anti-American violence in recent years. There were six explosions in Guadalajara, where flying glass injured 11 persons, six bombs in Mexico City and suburban communities, and three in Oaxaca. Among the targets were the American-connected Sears and Sanborns department stores. Handbills found at the bombing sites blamed “millionaire Mexicans and the gringos” for price rises and unemployment.
The Peruvian military government has closed an influential business magazine and arrested leading members of the Lima Bar Association for criticizing a government contract with Japanese oil companies helping to finance a $500‐milllon oil pipeline in Peru. The mazagine — an English-language weekly called The Peruvian Times — pointed out two months ago that the contract with the Japanese Petroleum Development Corporation and the Japan‐Peru Oil Company contained an arbitration clause under which a third party would settle any disputes not covered by the terms of the agreement. The Lima Bar Association then issued a statement two weeks ago charging that the contract violated an article of the national Constitution making all business concerns operating here subject only to Peruvian laws.
The White House greeted the reconvening 93rd Congress today with a Presidential message asking for prompt consideration of a “streamlined action program for the nation.” But legislative leaders expressed, doubt that the lame-duck session, only the second of a full Congress in 24 years, would accomplish much before to adjournment sometime next month. As business got under way, the conservatives who control the House Ways and Means Committee approved tentatively a bill to increase taxes paid by the oil industry in an effort to head off possibly harsher action by the Congress that takes office in January. In a message delivered to Capitol Hill this afternoon, President Ford urged swift confirmation of Vice President designate Nelson A. Rockefeller and approval of a score of Administration proposals, including the 5 per cent Federal income tax surcharge, trade refrom legislation and an emergency public service employment program.
A bill increasing GI education benefits by 23% for 10 million Vietnam-era and post-Korea veterans was sent to the White House despite the threat of a veto. Congress had held the bill for five weeks to forestall a pocket veto during the election recess. Now it hopes to be able to override a regular veto. President Ford had advocated an 18.2% increase, to go into effect January 1. He opposed as inflationary Congress’ 23% increase, retroactive to last September. In challenging Mr. Ford’s position, Sen. Vance Hartke (D-Indiana) noted that the bill had already been trimmed by 43% and said, “The President not only wants the veterans to bite the bullet, but he also apparently wants them to bite the dust.”
A White House tape recording played at the Watergate cover-up trial and made public for the first time disclosed that Richard Nixon agreed to clemency for E. Howard Hunt, one of the seven original Watergate defendants, on Jan. 8, 1973, the day they went on trial in the first Watergate case. Mr. Nixon did so in a discussion with Charles Colson, an aide, who told Mr. Nixon that the Watergate burglars were acting on orders issued on behalf of John Mitchell, and that Mr. Hunt had information “very incriminating to us.”
Dr. William Ronan denied any “sinister purpose” in $625,000 in loans and gifts from Nelson Rockefeller, which he said were “motivated solely by friendship and a life-long practice of sharing.” He was the principal witness on the final day of the Senate Rules Committee’s hearings on Mr. Rockefeller’s nomination as Vice President. The committee is scheduled to meet in executive session Wednesday morning to consider the nomination and is expected to vote overwhelmingly, if not unanimously, in favor of confirming it.
Former President Richard M. Nixon went home last week to a somewhat smaller staff than he had when he entered the hospital three weeks earlier. A White House report just submitted to a Senate subcommittee shows that the federally paid staff assigned to Mr. Nixon in San Clemente now totals 17, down from the 25 earlier detailed to him. This figure, however, does not include the undisclosed number of Secret Service agents, assigned to him for protective purposes, nor 17 communications experts and Coast Guardsmen offering allied protective services.
More than 16,000 drivers and other employees struck the Greyhound Bus Lines in a contract dispute, shutting down the country’s largest intercity bus system and stranding tens of thousands of travelers at terminals. Buses did not complete their runs, but dropped passengers at the “nearest sizable terminal” where Greyhound supervisory personnel assisted with arrangements for alternative connections.
Spring and summer are long gone and, with Thanksgiving near, there is still no trace of Patricia Campbell Hearst after six months. The last public word from the 20‐year‐old woman came in May in a tape recording in which she proclaimed anew her commitment to the so‐called Symbionese Liberation Army, which says it kidnapped her in February. In a strident monotone, she also proclaimed her love for William Wolfe, a comrade who, like six other members of the S.L.A., had just been killed in a gun battle with the Los Angeles police. At that time, 375 Federal agents were on her trail. Only 20 agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation work on the case these days, the agency reports, and Randolph Hearst, publisher and editor of The San Francisco Examiner, and his wife, Catherine, have withdrawn the $50,000 reward they had offered for their daughter’s safe return.
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops opened debate in Washington on a proposal to put the church on record as opposing capital punishment. The bishops also approved formation of a committee on the world food crisis to make specific recommendations to them before the end of the week-long conference of the prelates and their action arm-the U.S. Catholic Conference. A proposed statement, which could be altered, says the “death penalty should be eliminated… and we urge Catholics and others who share our views to join us in urging its elimination.”
American Jewish leaders indicated they would not press for the resignation of General George S. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose recent remarks touched off an uproar. “We’re going to bide our time,” said film producer Dore Schary, honorary chairman of the B’nai B’rith Anti-defamation League. Schary was one of 14 leaders invited. to a meeting with Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger to discuss Brown’s remarks last Oct. 10 at a student forum. Brown later apologized. He also was reprimanded by President Ford.
Chicago Alderman Thomas E. Keane, a powerful ally of Mayor Richard J. Daley, was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $27,000 plus court costs for his conviction on charges of conspiracy and mail fraud in real estate transactions. Keane, 69, a millionaire lawyer who has served 29 years in the City Council was convicted by a federal court jury last month of secretly buying up tax delinquent land, influencing the council to grant favorable tax settlements and then selling the property to city agencies at great profit.
The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers against taking two new arthritis drugs marketed by Whitehall Laboratories. It said the company’s Aspirin Free Arthritis Pain Formula and its Saloxium Analgesic-Anti-Inflammatory Tablets posed a potential danger to children and to persons taking anticoagulants. Whitehall did not have permission to market the drugs and it is withdrawing them, the FDA said.
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended changes in federal regulations to reduce the chances of “community-size disasters” involving large railroad tank cars loaded with hazardous materials. It noted that 15,000 uninsulated jumbo tank cars in recent years have been replacing smaller, insulated cars. The jumbos were approved “without full-scale testing,” the board said, and noted that four accidents involving the jumbos now have claimed three lives and caused more than 300 injuries. It also blamed bad road beds and the lack of periodic inspections.
A voluntary cutback by both private business and government of 25% in heating, lighting and air conditioning energy uses during the coming year was asked by the Federal Energy Administration. In a statement issued in Washington, D.C., assistant FEA administrator Roger W. Sant said most private and government buildings are “overlighted, overheated, and overcooled.” He said FEA guidelines call for winter thermostat settings of 65 to 68 degrees; summer settings of 78 to 80. Similar cuts were called for by FEA last year, Sant said, “but the message did not get across.” Mandatory control may be imposed, Sant warned, if the voluntary cutback program does not succeed.
Pioneer 11 began taking pictures of Jupiter and sending them back to earth today as the spacecraft hurtled toward the largest planet in the solar sygtem at 22,000 miles an hour. “It began shooting early this morning,” a spokesman for the National Aeronatics and Space Administration said. “The image that we are seeing, because we are more than nine million miles away, is quite small — about the size of a plum.” “But colors are discernible on the image, which indicates the instruments aboard the spacecraft are in good shape,” he said. Pioneer 11 will take pictures of, the planet‐23 hours‐a day, leaving one hour daily for an orientation check. It will come to within 26,000 miles of Jupiter’s clouds during its closest approach, on December 2. When the 560‐pound spacecraft nears Jupiter, it will be gripped by gravity and reach speeds of 107,000 miles an hour as it passes through the planet’s intense radiation belts. If it is not disabled by radiation, Pioneer 11 will continue on a course around Jupiter to Saturn.
“The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” album by English progressive rock band Genesis is released, their last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel.
Spanish tenor José Carreras made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, in the role of Cavaradossi in the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.
In a three-way deal, the San Diego Padres trade slugger Nate Colbert to Detroit for Ed Brinkman, Bob Strampe and Dick Sharon. Brinkman is then packaged with Danny Breeden and shipped to St. Louis, and the Cards send pitchers Allan Foster, Rich Folkers, and Sonny Siebert to the Padres. None of the new Padres have a prayer, while the ailing Colbert, who set a record in 1972 by driving in 22.75% of his team’s runs, will prove that his 1974 average of .207 was no fluke. He and Brinkman will play for three teams in 1975.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Kansas City Chiefs 42, Denver Broncos 34
Kansas City produced a 19-point third quarter, highlighted by Len Dawson’s scrambling 35‐yard touchdown pass to Otis Taylor, and the Chiefs outlasted the Denver Broncos, 42–34, tonight in a National Football League game. The offensive fireworks in the nationally televised game produced the highest combined score in the NF.L. this season, exceeding the 71 points in San Diego’s 36-35 victory over Cleveland on November 3. The loss, despite the passing heroics of Denver’s Charley Johnson, who threw for 445 yards, eliminated the Broncos from playoff contention and enabled the Oakland Raiders to clinch the title in the American Conference West Division. A safety proved the key play in the wild game as the Chiefs got 16 points with less than five minutes gone in the third period. Denver’s Oliver Ross fumbled away the second half kickoff, giving the Chiefs the ball at the Denver 12. Kansas City’s Woody Green then lost the ball at the 1, but two plays later the Chiefs’ middle linebacker, Willie Lanier, tackled Otis Armstrong in the end zone for the safety. Getting the ball back on the free kick, the Chiefs went 49 yards in five plays, capped by Dawson’s touchdown toss to Taylor. Two minutes later, after a long punt return by Ed Podolak, Green scored again
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 624.92 (-22.69, -3.50%).
Born:
Chloë Sevigny, American actress (“Big Love”), and director, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Christian Schmidt, Australian actor (Neighbours), in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver, in Askim, Norway.
Died:
Gösta Lilliehöök, 90, Swedish modern pentathlete and 1912 Olympic Games champion.
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