President Ford was formally greeted by Emperor Hirohito and Premier Kakuei Tanaka of Japan as he began a state visit to America’s major ally in East Asia. The welcoming ceremony in the garden of the state guest house was followed immediately by Mr. Ford’s courtesy call on the Emperor. Then Mr. Ford held the first of his meetings with Mr. Tanaka.
The prosecution asked prison terms ranging from 6 to 31 years for nine Basques, including three women, in Spain’s National Court of Public Order. The charges against them include terrorism, illegal association and propaganda as members of the working Marxist-Leninist organization. The group — Assn. of Euzkadi (Basque country) Marxist-Lennist Workers — is accused of trying to reconstruct the Spanish Communist Party.
In Italy, the tiny Republican party agreed today to join the Christian Democrats in a new two‐party Cabinet, virtually ensuring that within a day or so, Italy will have her first government in seven weeks. The agreement came after two other parties, the Socialists and Social Democrats, had agreed to support the government in Parliament. “Things became very simple after so much suffering,” commented the Republican party secretary, Ugo La Malfa, as he emerged from a meeting with Premier‐designate Aldo Moro. And Mr. Moro commented tonight, “I think I can say that we are really at the final stage of the crisis.”
A Protestant vicar was ordered held in police custody in connection with the murder of West Berlin’s chief judge, Guenther van Drenkmann, 10 days ago. A city magistrate ordered the Rev. Kornelius Burckhardt detained on suspicion of supporting a criminal conspiracy and failing to report a planned crime. Burckhardt gave himself up to police in Kassel Monday after the arrest of a woman church social worker, Mrs. Undine Zuehlke, who also is being detained in the case.
One of the organizers of a weekly Jewish scientific seminar in Moscow, Professor Alexander Voronel, has been offered an exit visa to go to Israel by the end of the year if he halts the seminar, his wife said. Nina Voronel told reporters in Moscow that her husband already had let it be known he would not close the seminar, which brings together out-of-work Jewish scientists who have applied for permission to emigrate. Voronel, 42, a physicist, first applied to emigrate two years ago.
Five artists whose works do not conform to guidelines of socialist realism have been permitted by Soviet authorities to exhibit alongside, accepted orthodox painters. They were included in the annual autumn show of the graphic artists union. The permission followed a major fight this fall when bulldozers were used to break up an outdoor show of unofficial art.
An Arab guerrilla raid on an Israeli apartment house five miles from the Jordanian border killed four residents and ended with the killing of the three raiders by an army unit. Angry neighbors attempted to burn their bodies. The guerrillas were identified as members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Defense Minister Shimon Peres said terrorist bases would be hit unceasingly “in their centers in Lebanon and in their roots on both sides of the border.”
In Damascus the operations chief of the Popular Democratic Front said it had carried out the attack with authorization of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He called it a legal military action and said attacks in Israel would continue until the Israelis agreed to negotiate with the P.L.O. headed by Yasser Arafat.
Disturbances broke out in the Israeli‐occupied West Bank today for the fourth consecutive day when Arab youths in East Jerusalem tried to stage a demonstration and others set up a road block. Israeli security forces moved in quickly and detained about 20 Arab high school students. A fire bomb was thrown at an Israeli civilian vehicle in Bethlehem, but failed to explode. A bus taking Arabs to work in Israel was stoned in Hebron by other Arabs. Israeli leaders have said the West Bank disturbances were set off by the address last week to the United Nations by Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
President Anward el‐Sadat conferred in Cairo today with Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Middle East News Agency reported. The report was the first indication that Mr. Arafat had arrived in Egypt from Algeria, where he stopped after visiting the United Nations and Cuba. President Sadat and Mr. Arafat are believed to have discussed Middle East developments, including the Israeli mobilization of some reserves, over the weekend. Other likely topics, sources said, were the United Nations General Assembly’s debate of the Palestine issue and Mr. Arafat’s recent talks with Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba, and, President Houari Boumédiène of Algeria.
France has started delivering Mirage fighter bombers to Egypt, a step regarded as the first hard evidence that Egypt is turning to France for new weapons in an effort to broaden a source of arms. Egypt has received no new military equipment from the Soviet Union and only two shiploads of Soviet spare parts since last April, United States Government sources say. The Soviet shipments arrived shortly before President Anwar el-Sadat announced that his country was ending its nearly 20‐year dependence on Moscow for arms. However, United States analysts believe that a visit by Leonid I Brezhnev, the Soviet leader to Cairo next January could result in at least a partial resumption of arms deliveries to Egypt. The sources say that French pilots have flown three Mirage V fighter-bombers to Egypt, the first deliveries on an order expected to total 36 planes. The Mirages are being paid for by Saudi Arabia, the sources say. Egypt has a group of pilots with experience in flying Libya’s Mirages so the newly acquired planes can be expected to join front‐line Egyptian air units with little or no delay.
In Seoul, South Korea, 3,000 college students and religious demonstrators participated in demonstrations demanding the return of democracy to the country. Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, a leading Christian institution, called off classes until December 5 after about 2,000 students met on the campus demanding the release of jailed intellectuals and a revision of the Constitution. The students then marched around the campus shouting, “Save the country!” and “Freedom!”
South Korea’s National Assembly called North Korea’s recent digging of a tunnel inside the demilitarized zone an “aggressive act” today and urged the United Nations to take “effective and direct” steps to prevent such incidents. The Assembly approved the two resolutions in a session attended by opposition members who have been boycotting the legislature for the last three days. The tunnel under, the demilitarized zone was discovered last Friday. Premier Kim Jong Pil told a group of American visitors yesterday that 5,000 to 6,000 men, with equipment could move through it in an hour. The tunnel, which is two-thirds of a mile long and reinforced with concrete slabs, extends halfway across the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Peking denied reports that Premier Chou En-lai had stomach cancer and underwent an operation for it. Word has been circulating among the foreign community in Peking that the 76-year-old premier, who has been ill for the past six weeks, was receiving cobalt radiation treatments following an operation more than two months ago.
A 16‐year‐old Filipino boy left for the United States today with an exit visa that his father had won for him by holding the Philippine Ambassador in Washington hostage for more than 10 hours. According to the Philippine Information Department, the original request by the youth, Napoleon Lechoco Jr., for visa was rejected because he was confused with a person facing an embezzlement charge. ‘The father, Napoleon Lechoco, surrendered to the police early this morning, Washington time, as soon as he had received assurances that his son would be allowed to leave Manila.
Canadians will pay less tax on their incomes but more on alcohol, tobacco and big cars, according to the budget announced by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Liberal government. Corporation taxes also will be increased, but taxes on construction materials are being lowered. The budget is virtually the same one that failed to pass last May, bringing down Trudeau’s government and forcing new elections.
Chile is considering sending children of supporters of the late President Salvador Allende to work in rehabilitation camps, the U.S. Congress was told. Niell MacDermot, secretary general of the International Commission of Jurists, said his group learned that Chile is considering the scheme in connection with $600,000 children. He said that serious injustices continue to occur in Chile due to errors of law by military tribunals.
A leader of South Africa’s antiapartheid Progressive party asserted yesterday that the United Nations ruling denying a seat in the General Assembly to South Africa “may well prove counter‐productive” in forcing that nation to end its restrictive racial policy.
Helen Suzman, long a critic of Prime Minister John Vorster’s South African government over its policy of racial separation, said “I think it would have been more constructive to have demanded that South Africa spell out the changes envisaged and to set out a timetable for implementing them, and then to take action if South Africa failed to follow through… To take steps which could lead to withdrawal from the United Nations may well accomplish less in the long run than ensuring that South Africa stays in the United Nations, accountable to it, and under constant pressure to change,” she asserted.
The House Ways and Means Committee acted tentatively for tax relief next year in the lower and medium brackets and definitely to end the oil depletion allowance for all companies next year. The 13-to-12 margin on oil depletion is not subject to reconsideration. The tax relief for nearly 40 million individuals and couples, about half with incomes under $7,000 and most of the rest with incomes under $15,000, could be reviewed in committee.
In a tape recording played at the Watergate cover-up trial, former President Nixon told two aides he would give “full pardons” to various participants before leaving office. Mr. Nixon’s version of the transcript last spring did not include this comment. Judge John Sirica received formal notification that Mr. Nixon agreed to examination by three court-appointed physicians on his ability to testify.
The House of Representatives has passed legislation greatly increasing penalties for criminal violations of the antitrust laws such as fixing prices. The maximum fines would rise from $50,000 to $1 million for corporations and from $50,000 to $500,000 for individuals, and maximum jail sentences would be increased from one year to three years, thus making criminal antitrust offenses a felony. The measure now goes back to the Senate.
Recent charges of cancer‐causing chemicals in tap water supplies helped induce the House today to vote minimum Federal purity standards for drinking water under a bill that had been delayed for four years.
Congressional conferees seemed close to resolving a three‐month stalemate on a strip mining bill today, but the Ford Administration warned that the measure might be vetoed if major modifications were not made. The warning came in a letter from Interior Secretary R ogers C. B. Morton, who said that the bill would fuel inflation and reduce national coal production by 14 million tons to 38 million tons in 1975. The Administration’s objections touched on virtually all major sections of the bill. Mr. Morton said that the legislation contained “unnecessarily rigid requirements,” would encourage excessive Federal action and would be difficult to administer.
A report of the Senate Subcommittee on Long-Term Care accused federal and state governments of persistent failure to enforce laws and administrative standards against abuses in nursing homes. It said that most of the million Americans in nursing homes still received inadequate care. It said the regulatory standards issued by Department of Health, Education and Welfare were watered-down, vague and misleading.
The $11.8 billion federal mass-transit program including $170 million toward saving the New York City 35-cent transit fare sailed through the Senate in a 64 to 17 vote. The measure, in a form developed by a joint committee with the House of Representatives and endorsed by President Ford, now goes to the House with added momentum.
The nationwide coal strike entered its second week today with no settlement in sight and with increasing signs that more time-consuming negotiations with the mine operators will be required before the United Mine Workers of America can begin tests of membership sentiment on an end to the walkout.
The Justice Department said it had been asked to investigate the death of a woman in an auto crash who had raised critical questions about safety procedures in an Oklahoma plutonium plant. The victim, Karen G. Silkwood, 28, was killed when her car crashed into a culvert last week near Crescent, Oklahoma. “We’re not accusing anyone of murder,” stressed Anthony Mazzocchi, of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. But he said a private investigator had indicated Miss Silkwood’s car might have been forced off the road while she allegedly was carrying evidence to support her contention that the plant was falsifying records about plutonium rods.
School attendance in Charleston, West Virginia was near normal today, but officials continued to serve truancy notices on parents who have refused to permit their children to return to classes because of textbooks they consider immoral and unpatriotic. A spokesman for the Kanawha County Board of Education said almost 90 percent of the county’s 42,232 students had reported to schools. It was the second day of near‐normal attendance. About 86 percent of the pupils were in class yesterday. The normal absentee rate is about 10 percent. The calm this week was in marked contrast with last week when a state police patrol car and three school buses, empty except for their drivers, were struck by sniper fire.
A federally funded study recommends legalizing prostitution, gambling and drugs so that courts can spend their time on more serious crimes. These and other such offenses as vagrancy, drunkenness and unconventional sexual conduct take up half the time of typical low-level criminal courts, according to a two-year, five-volume study prepared by the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. “They are crimes without victims. Criminal sanctions rarely do much good,” said Sheldon Krantz, director of Boston University’s Center for Criminal Justice.
A former press aide to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley was sentenced to one year in prison for fraud stemming from hidden interests in an advertising company that did business with the city. Earl Bush, 59, was convicted October 11 on 11 counts in connection with advertising display contracts at O’Hare International Airport, which is run by the city. On Monday, another close Daley associate, Thomas E. Keane, City Council floor leader, was sentenced to five years in prison for mail fraud in connection with real estate dealings.
The nomination of Daniel T. Kingsley to the Federal Power Commission will not be resubmitted to Congress, a White House statement said. It noted that Kingsley had requested President Ford not to reoffer his name and that Mr. Ford had accepted “with deep regret.” Kingsley was originally nominated by “former President Richard M. Nixon. He served as a special presidential assistant for personnel during the last three years of Mr. Nixon’s administration. The Senate never held hearings on his appointment.
Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton has been awarded the Navy Cross for blinking his eyes in a distress signal while a prisoner of the North Vietnamese, the Navy said today. The Navy citation said the then Captain Denton blinked out his distress message in code when forced into a propaganda interview with a Japanese television crew. He was tortured when his captors discovered what he had done, but was not forced before the cameras again, it was disclosed. The Navy would not disclose the contents of the message, which was decoded by naval intelligence.
California Governor Ronald Reagan told some 400 journalists today that the news media had developed a “hosility toward private enterprise” while forgetting that “it’s part of free enterprise.” Mr. Reagan was in Long Beach for the annual convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, the organization of newspaper editors who use The Associated Press news wires. Mr. Reagan, who leaves office in January; declined to answer questions about his Presidential ambitions. Earlier this week Mr. Reagan announced that he will start syndicated column upon leaving office.
The Chrysler Corporation announced today that, it would close, or keep closed, five of its six assembly plants in the United States through the month of December and into the first week of January to reduce, its 125‐day backlog of cars. Chrysler said the closings would mean producing 50,000 fewer cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Chrysler’s stamping and manufacturing plants, which feed the assembly plants, will also be put on reduced schedules, the company said, although they will continue to make parts for the repair market and suppliers. The closings will mean the temporary layoff of 35,500 workers and the indefinite layoff of 8,400 workers.
The United States could have a small solar electrical power generating plant operating in six years, the National Science Foundation’s solar projects manager said in Las Cruces, New Mexico. “Given maximum funding at the $1 billion level, a small, 10-megawatt plant could be built in the United States by 1980,” George Kaplan told a news conference prior to an international seminar on large-scale solar test facilities. Kaplan said such a power plant could serve the electrical needs of a city of 10,000.
A Lemon Grove clothing store manager was arrested by San Diego district attorney’s investigators on misdemeanor charges of selling cowboy boots made from alligator and kangaroo hides. The arrest of Fred Nobbs was believed to be one of the first under a 1972 state law which was written to protect endangered species. Authorities said 25 pairs of boots fashioned from the hides were seized at the store. The state law provides for a minimum fine of $1,000 for possession of the boots and a maximum of $15,000 and six months in jail.
Dedication ceremonies began for the Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, continuing through November 22.
The New York Telephone Company said yesterday that it would seek permission charge 20 cents for pay‐phone calls and revise its message unit system as part of a new rate structure to provide an additional $380‐million a year in revenue.
Pioneer 11 will face a greater radiation danger than any previous spacecraft when it sweeps within 26,600 miles of Jupiter on December 3, project officials report. The nuclear‐powered robot explorer craft could be damaged so severely that it would be unable to carry out the second phase of its long interplanetary journey, a flight across the solar system to rendezvous with Saturn. “The radiation counts will probably soar at a pace that will scare us half to death just before closest approach,” said B. J. O’Brien, Pioneer project manager at TRW, Inc., which built the satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Born:
Aimee Brooks, American actress (“Critters 3”), in Los Angeles, California.
Tawnie Olson, Canadian contemporary classical composer, and educator, in Canada.
Mario Valdéz, Mexican MLB first baseman, pinch hitter, and leftfielder (Chicago White Sox, Oakland A’s), in Ciudad Obregon, Mexico.
John Roskos, MLB pinch hitter, outfielder, and first baseman (Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres), in Victorville, California.
Died:
Louise Fitzhugh, 46, American children’s author (“Harriet the Spy”), of a brain aneurysm.
George Brunies (aka Georg Brunis), 72, American jazz trombonist of the dixieland revival, did of a heart ailment.
Alessandro Momo, 17, Italian actor (“Malicious”, “Scent of a Woman”), in a motorcycle accident.
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