President Ford’s talks in Japan concluded with issuance of a joint communiqué with Premier Kakuei Tanaka saying the two countries would seek to strengthen economic cooperation. Secretary of State Kissinger said that the talks could lead to more specific agreements in the future and that the American initiatives were aimed at surviving any change of government in Tokyo.
The U.S. Senate approved unanimously and without debate legislation declaring that it is U.S. policy to pay damages to foreigners in the event of an accident from any of the 127 U.S. ships powered by nuclear reactors.
In Birmingham, England, two pubs on New Street were bombed, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others, many of them seriously, in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. At 8:17 in the evening, a time bomb exploded at the Mulberry Bush pub, killing 10 people, two of whom had been walking past the establishment. Ten minutes later, at 8:27, another bomb detonated at the Tavern in the Town and killed 11 others. The bombings were the deadliest terrorist acts in the Britain in the 20th century.
The bombings were wrongly blamed on the “Birmingham Six”, six men from Northern Ireland who were longtime residents of the city, who were coerced by police abuse into signing confessions to a crime that they had not committed. The six men— Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Joe Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power and Johnny Walker— would be sentenced to life imprisonment on August 15, 1975, until their convictions were overturned by an appellate court on March 14, 1991. Later, a witness would identify Mick Murray as the organizer of the bombings.
First signs of a break in France’s labor crisis appeared as gas and electricity workers shied away from a threatened new stoppage and the government pledged early talks on 1975 wages for public employees. Rail services returned to normal following a 50% shutdown on Tuesday, and even a few postmen, hard core of the strike movement, began drifting back to work.
Archbishop Makarios will return to Cyprus early next month, according to the island’s acting President, Glafkos Clerides. Mr. Clerides made the announcement here after a seven-hour meeting with the exiled President, who was forced to flee Cyprus during the coup last summer. This was his first meeting since the coup with Mr. Clerides, who has been governing in his absence. Mr. Clerides said that the two men would meet with leaders of the Greek Government in Athens on November 28 to work out an agreed policy for negotiations with Turkey on the future of the Mediterranean island. Four or five days later, Mr. Clerides continued, the Archbishop “intends to return to Cyprus to resume his presidency.”
The American Ambassador to Greece suggested consideration of using the 6th Fleet to forcibly prevent the Turkish invasion of Cyprus last summer, it was learned today. United States sources said Secretary of State Kissinger refused to use the Navy and said the United States should not become militarily involved. He was said to have felt that the Turks could not be bluffed out of the invasion and that it would have been totally unacceptable to have engaged them in a battle.
Greece got her first elected government today after seven years of military rule. Premier Konstantine Karamanlis, 67 years old, and his Cabinet of 19 Ministers and 16 Under Secretaries were sworn in to replace the caretaker government that supervised last Sunday’s elections-the first in a decade.
Nine Moscow Jewish activists, in an open letter to President Ford, said Soviet authorities were taking precautions against the day when they might conclude an agreement with the United States easing Jewish emigration. The 3,000-word letter accused the Kremlin of creating a repressive atmosphere to discourage Jews from trying to leave the country, sabotaging in advance any agreement. It said there is evidence employees have been made to sign declarations that they would not try to emigrate or meet with foreigners.
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, in a vote dominated by Arab and Communist delegations, excluded Israel from its European regional group. The vote, which weakens Israel’s position in the world community, was the second action taken against Israel in 24 hours during UNESCO’s general conference in Paris.
The United States reaffirmed in the General Assembly that “Israel has the right to exist as a sovereign, independent state within secure and recognized boundaries.” Speaking in the Assembly’s continuing debate on the “question of Palestine,” John Scali, the chief American delegate, echoed the words of a Security Council Resolution of November, 1967.
A British Airways VC-10 jetliner, hijacked by gunmen at Dubai International Airport, had landed in Tripoli, Libya, an airline spokesman in Dubai said. “All I can say is that it landed safely at Tripoli. We don’t know any more,” he said. A stewardess was reported shot — although her condition was not regarded as serious — in the takeover of the plane as it made a stop in the Arabian Peninsula sheikdom while flying from London to Calcutta. An airline spokesman said there were 27 passengers and 10 crew members aboard the plane. Forty passengers were left in Dubai.
Muslims and non-Muslims alike will be liable to between 10 and 40 lashes of the birch for drinking, selling, possessing or making alcohol under a new law now enforced in Libya. As an alternative to birching, the law offers prison terms of between 3 months and a year. Anyone found guilty of offering a Muslim a drink could face between 2 and 6 months in prison.
South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu renewed his proposal for a peace conference of the 10 Southeast Asian nations including North Vietnam. Western diplomats said the idea had no chance of succeeding and was another effort to counter Communist propaganda depicting Thiệu as a warmonger.
The Cambodian Government, weary from its nearly five‐year war with Communistled insurgents, today expressed hope about, but not confidence in its ability to survive in the coming months. At a news conference this afternoon, Premier Long Boret and the armed forces commander, Lieutenant General Sosthene Fernandez, pointedly avoided expressing any outright optimism about being able to carry on if their Government loses its United Nations seat to the insurgents or if the United States Congress drastically cuts aid to the Phnom Penh Government, as it is preparing to do.
Japan’s Ministry of Transport issued its “Ministerial Ordinance for Partial Revision of Safety Standards for Road Transport Vehicles” to require all motor vehicles manufactured in Japan to include a speed chime that would begin ringing if the vehicle exceeded 105 kilometres per hour (65 mph). Under pressure from other car-producing nations, the requirement would be removed in 1986.
A federal policeman killed three men presumed to be guerrillas in a gunfight in a plush residential area of Buenos Aires. The policeman also was wounded, police said. Pamphlets from the Marxist People’s Revolutionary Army were found on the dead men. The guerrilla group has suffered 20 dead and scores captured in the past two months, unofficial sources said. In Cordoba province, police said they seized a cache of stolen weapons including two cannons, an anti-aircraft gun and 40 machine guns in a raid in which four guerrillas were slain. The weapons had been stolen from a munitions plant.
Rhodesian and Zambian troops engaged in a gun and mortar battle on their border, a Rhodesian spokesman said. He said the Zambians opened fire first. No injuries were reported. There have been similar incidents since Rhodesia closed the border in a dispute with Zambia over helping nationalist guerrillas.
The U.S. Freedom of Information Act was amended after both Houses of Congress voted to override U.S. President Ford’s October 17 veto. Amendments to the Freedom of Information Act broadening public access to US government actions passed by Congress over President Gerald Ford’s veto.
The Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose substantially in October, but less than in most other months this year. The October increase in the Consumer Price Index was nine-tenths of 1 percent, both before and after adjustment for normal seasonal changes in some prices and was much higher than normal, but lower than in August and September. Sugar and sugar-based products had a big role.
The General Motors Corporation announced further layoffs and the Ford Motor Company reduced the price of its sub-compact Pinto by $66 in moves against the slump in car sales and large inventories of unsold cars. General Motors said that 30,000 workers at nine of its 22 assembly plants would be laid off for one to two weeks in December.
Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota withdrew as a Democratic campaigner for the presidential nomination in 1976. A year of exploratory travel, speeches and fundraising taught him, Mr. Mondale said, that “I do not have the overwhelming desire to be President which is essential for the kind of campaign that is required.”
The jury at the Watergate cover-up trial heard four more previously undisclosed White House tape recordings that showed, among other things, that Richard Nixon wanted two top aides to help “put the wagons up around the President” to protect him from the testimony of a third aide.
The House, prodded by President Ford and bipartisan congressional leadership, passed a landmark six-year, $11.8 billion mass-transit bill authorizing federal funds for municipal operating subsidies and providing New York City with $170 million of the more than $200 million needed this fiscal year to save the 35-cent fare. The vote was 288 to 109. The Senate had approved the bill Tuesday, voting 64 to 17. Mayor Beame said that he had “very high hopes” that the 35-cent fare would be kept through 1975.
A controversial anti-abortion amendment was dropped by Senate and House conferees from a money bill funding the Department of Labor and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The conferees had been the objects of intense lobbying for months by women’s groups opposing the amendment and the right-to-life groups supporting it. The conferees agreed to say in a report to accompany the bill that abortion should not be the primary vehicle of family planning. The amendment would have prohibited federal funds for abortions, abortion referrals, research or related activities carried out by the two departments or at medical schools and teaching hospitals supported by the Health, Education and Welfare Department.
A laboratory worker who had been exposed to radiation died as the result of traffic injuries near Crescent, Oklahoma, the state medical examiner said. He also rejected a union suggestion that her car had been forced off the road. Officials of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union had questioned the death of Karen Silkwood, 28, an employee of the Kerr-McGee Cimmaron Nuclear Facility, Dr. A. J. Chapman, the medical examiner, said an autopsy determined that Miss Silkwood was under the influence of “a sedative-hypnotic drug, methaqualone, associated with a trace of ethyl alcohol.” He added that “no trace of radioactivity was found.”
Senator Thomas F. Eagleton asserted today that the Navy was requesting $100‐million to correct deficiencies in its F‐14 Tomcat fighter plane, particularly in the radar system.
Edward V. Hanrahan set Chicago’s political pot to boiling when he announced he would seek the mayoral office currently held by his former mentor, Richard J. Daley. His candidacy is expected to increase pressure on Daley, 72, to seek a sixth term to preserve his office for the Democratic organization he heads. Hanrahan, 53, got national notoriety in 1969 when policemen assigned to his state’s attorney’s office staged a pre-dawn raid on a house occupied by members of the Black Panther Party, killing two Panther leaders. Hanrahan and 13 others were acquitted of criminal charges in the raid but protests persuaded Daley and his organization to dump him in 1972.
Arnold Miller, United Mine Workers president, said in Charleston, West Virginia, he would return to negotiations in Washington to try to reach a coal industry contract settlement, but he indicated he did not expect any major new concessions from the mine operators.
Two members of a local motorcycle gang in New Britain, Connecticut were arrested today and charged with the murder of six persons in a bakery there last month.
Liquor tycoon Edgar M. Bronfman won annulment of his unconsummated marriage to Lady Carolyn Townshend. He also was awarded more than half the $1 million he bestowed on her in a prenuptial agreement. “The proof establishes that Lady Carolyn never intended to faithfully perform her wifely duties and consummate the marriage,” state Supreme Court Justice Jacob Grumet ruled in approving the out-of-court settlement in New York.
Despite opposition by industry and labor, the New Jersey state Senate, voting 30 to 6, approved a controversial measure that will enable the state’s citizens to take alleged environmental polluters to court. Governor Byrne had described the bill as “one of the most significant environmental measures I will propose during my term as Governor.” However, the bill’s principal sponsor, Assemblyman Thomas Kean, believes it is a weakened version of the original bill debated in the Assembly.
Freon aerosol gas poses such a serious threat to the earth’s ozone radiation shield that the nation should consider a possible ban on its manufacture. This was the tentative conclusion of a five-member panel of the National Academy of Sciences, which recommended that a one-year investigation should be ordered to determine the scale of the threat and to attempt to find a way to avoid it. It is understood the Academy agreed to undertake the investigation. The use of freon as a propellant for aerosol sprays has grown. at the rate of 15% per year over the last five years.
University of California at Davis attorneys asked a Sacramento appeals court to overturn a Superior Court ruling requiring the university to rehire Mrs. Doris Judd, a food service worker, who was fired for assertedly failing to spread mayonnaise on sandwiches properly. The university lawyers told the 3rd District Court of Appeal that the school was within its rights when it fired Mrs. Judd on February 4, 1973, because the evidence warranted her dismissal. A superior judge ruled last March that Mrs. Judd, a 60-year-old widow, should be reinstated with $7,500 back pay.
Eleven nuclear power plants in the eastern half of the nation have been given clean bills of health after the Atomic Energy Commission ordered an inspection of key pipes in reactor cooling systems for possible leaks. The inspections were ordered September 20 after leaks were found in three reactors-one of which was operating at the time and two others shut down for refueling or maintenance. Despite the results of the inspection, studies are continuing on the cause of the leaks, which have been tentatively blamed on “stress assisted corrosion,” the AEC said.
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Born:
Tremain Mack, NFL safety and kick returner (Cincinnati Bengals), in Tyler, Texas.
Cory Sauter, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears), in Hutchinson, Minnesota.
Died:
Sir William Andrewes KBE CB DSO, 75, Royal Navy admiral, Korean War commander of United Nations blockade and escort force.
John B. Gambling, 77, English-born American radio broadcasting pioneer known for “Rambling with Gambling.”
Frank Martin, 84, Swiss composer (“In Terra Fax”).
Arthur J. Scanlan, 93, Irish-born American Roman Catholic priest, founding pastor of St. Helena’s Church in the Bronx.
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