U.S. President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger arrived in the Soviet Union at the Vozdvizhenka Airbase near Vladivostok, where they were greeted by Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for a summit meeting on arms control.
President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev, after seven hours of talks at Vladivostok, were reported to have made progress toward a comprehensive, 10-year agreement for curbing offensive nuclear weapons. Secretary of State Kissinger, who participated in all the meetings, told reporters that he expected the talks to end with some form of new instructions to negotiators at Geneva. “The views of the two sides are being brought closer,” Mr. Kissinger said.
An Armenian, Paruir Airakyan, 25, was sentenced to seven years in jail for his alleged part in organizing an Armenian national party, Soviet dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakharov reported from Moscow. Airakyan, who served four years on charges of anti-Soviet activity from 1969 to 1973, was the latest Armenian sentenced in a case that reportedly has sent another 11 persons to jail. Sakharov called for help for the Armenian by “those concerned with humanity and justice.”
In what was taken by some as a bitter backlash against the bombings of two pubs in Birmingham two nights ago, Irish-owned stores and pubs in England were fire‐bombed today. Special alerts were ordered by the police as gasoline bombs were thrown into a pub in London and in Birmingham — where 19 were killed and 202 injured in the bombings Thursday — and an Irish‐owned tobacconist’s shop in Streatham, a London suburb. No one was hurt in any of the incidents. The police were questioning five men picked up near Heysham, a Lancashire port with ferry link to Belfast, after the killings in Birmingham. Meanwhile the body of James McDade, a young member of the outlawed Irish Republican Army who was killed in Britain as he planted a bomb last week, arrived in his home town, Belfast.
The police found the owner of a Belfast taxi company and his wife shot to death tonight in the communciations room of the company’s office. Gunmen have struck at the company three times in 14 months, killing two employes and a customer waiting for cab. Earlier today, the bodies of a young man and a woman were found at a gasoline station in a Protestant area. Security officials said they believed the couple, as well as a 17‐year‐old girl slain yesterday, were killed in revenge for Thursday’s pub bombings in Birmingham, England.
Aldo Moro took office as the Prime Minister of Italy. Moro, who had served as Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968, replaced Mariano Rumor, whose government collapsed on October 3 after the ministers could not agree on how to manage a rising inflation rate. Premier Aldo Moro today presented President Giovanni Leone with a list of ministers in his new Cabinet. The Cabinet list was of 25 ministers from two parties — Mr. Moro’s own Christian Democrats and the tiny Republican party.
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim today postponed scheduled trip to the Middle East amid speculation that he was awaiting word from the American‐Soviet talks in Vladivostok. “United Nations sources said that Mr. Waldheim now expected to leave tomorrow, visit Syria, Israel and Egypt, and return to New York in time for a Security Council meeting on Friday. The Council is to consider the status of the 1,500‐man United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights, whose mandate expires next Saturday unless it is renewed.
Palestinian hijackers killed a German banker and later released 13 hostages, but threatened the lives of their 27 remaining captives aboard a British airliner unless terrorists held in Cairo were released. Egypt flew five of the terrorists to Tunis in a bid to save the hostages, but made no mention of the eight others whose release had been demanded. The Dutch government declared in the Hague early today it would release two Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages in the British jetliner being held here. The first hostages to be freed were five women, a man and child. They were quickly escorted from the plane to the control tower, and then to Tunis hotel. Later last night, six women were released and walked to the terminal building.
The Israeli Information Minister, Aharon Yariv, said that Israel was willing to consider granting autonomy in gradual stages to the 700,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank area. He said that eventually this could lead to a federated status for the area in which the relations between the West Bank, Israel and Jordan could finally be determined. He also said, in an interview over the Israeli state radio, that the General Assembly’s resolutions on the Palestinians would have no effect on Israel’s refusal to negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization. “There cannot be, at this stage, any middle ground between us and the P.L.O.,” he said. “The P.L.O. stands openly for the destruction and removal of the state of Israel.”
Abdel Mohsen Abu Maizer, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and a close adviser to its chairman, Yasser Arafat, said that the organization would review its policy of terrorism against Israel now that it had obtained observer’s status at the United Nations. He added that “military operations” against Israel could be expected to continue but his organization would put increasing emphasis on political activity to advance its cause.
The United States and Saudi Arabia ended initial negotiations in Washington that could lead to the sale of billions of dollars in American arms that would give the Saudis a highly mobile and mechanized army along with a large air force and greatly expanded navy. U.S. officials stressed that the two weeks of talks, which were held partly in Saudi Arabia, were preliminary and that no deal was made, although they reported progress toward shaping final plans.
The Derg, which had carried out the Ethiopian Revolution in September and declared the Republic of Ethiopia, carried out the mass execution of 54 former government officials and military officers at Kerchele Prison, and sent soldiers to murder six others who were not incarcerated. The condemned officials, who had recently served the government of Emperor Haile Selassie, included Prime Ministers Aklilu Habte-Wold (who had served from 1961 until March 1974) and Endelkachew Makonnen (who served from March to July); General Aman Andom, 50, who had taken over in the September coup as the first President of Ethiopia; Rear Admiral Leul Iskinder Desta, a grandson of Selassie; Abiye Abebe, former Viceroy of Eritrea (1959-1964), President of the Senate (1964-1974) and Minister of Defense from February to July, 1974; Prince Asrate Medhin Kassa (Viceroy of Eritrea 1964 to 1970 and President of the Crown Council, 1971 to 1974); Admiral Iskinder Desta of the Imperial Ethiopian Navy; wealthy businessman and Lieutenant General Mesfin Sileshi; and Chief Justice Abeje Debalke. Six others were killed in a shootout at the home of General Andom.
Efforts at reconciliation between India and Pakistan suffered setback this week with an apparent breakdown of talks on resumption of air links and overflights. An Indian delegation returned yesterday from Rawalpindi, the Pakistani capital, after five days’ of talks that “never got off the ground,” according to sources close to the negotiations. The sources said the talks foundered because the Pakistanis refused to withdraw their complaint filed with the International Civil Aviation Organization against the Indian ban on the overflights. The Pakistani radio however, reported “good progress” in the Rawalpindi talks. And the leader of the Indian delegation said the talks had been ‘constructive.”
India, a nation growing by 13 million people each year, is overhauling her shaky birth‐control program. The policy shift comes at a time of food scarcities, economic drift and a widespread acknowledgment among officials and population experts that India’s birth‐control efforts have faltered in recent years. Critics say that there has been an absence of economic and political commitment to population control in India, the most populous nation in the world after China. The new program seeks to integrate family planning with other health services and to send teams to villages to deal with child and maternity care, malaria and smallpox control as well as family planning. Previously, 80,000 workers dealt solely with family planning and provided villagers with contraceptives and advice on birth control.
About 620 prisoners on board a ship bound for the infamous Côn Sơn prison island off South Vietnam rebelled and took over the naval landing vessel when guards fled at a port near Saigon. Sources said the rebellion broke out a short distance from Saigon. The captain docked the ship at Newport and all 27 military guards and the 75-man crew fled, leaving the prisoners in control. Prison officials said 100 of the inmates were political detainees and the rest convicted common criminals.
Charges of corruption against South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu were renewed by the Rev. Trần Hữu Thành at a gathering of 5,000 Roman Catholics in the Saigon suburb of Biên Hòa. Earlier the Việt Cộng accused the United States of using Father Thành to manipulate the protest movement. The priest said it “proved very encouraging for me and the movement because President Thiệu has accused us of being Communist henchmen and now the Việt Cộng accuse us of being U.S. stooges.”
Leaders of Japan’s governing Liberal-Democratic party held intensive meetings today to find a way to select a successor to Premier Kakuei Tanaka, should he announce his intention to resign next week as has been widely rumored. ly rumored.
An American member of a Japanese plane crew prevented the hijacking of a Tokyo-bound jetliner when he seized a 16-year-old youth threatening to blow up the plane with “dynamite.” The youth entered the cabin of the All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 after it left Sapporo in northern Japan. John V. Vivian, 31, a flight engineer from Philadelphia, lunged for the youth and overpowered him.
The martial-law Philippine Government, which a year ago completed the breakup of large tenanted estates devoted to the raising of rice and corn, has now extended its land-reform program to the holdings of the smaller landlords.
The Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes, a bullring, opened in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.
Brazil’s most controversial policeman, Sergio Fleury, was acquitted in a Rio de Janeiro jury trial in which he was accused of being a killer for the notorious “Death Squad.” The verdict was unanimous. Fleury is an investigator for the political police in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. He had been charged in the 1969 “Death Squad” slaying of a petty crook. Fleury has tracked down and killed some of the country’s most wanted terrorists.
Argentine security forces have arrested hundreds of suspected guerrillas in a nationwide crackdown on armed leftist groups, according to police sources in Buenos Aires. And a rightist Perónist, Jose Alejandro Mosquera, was named governor of the northwestern province of Salta. The former governor, Miguel Ragone, was ousted by the federal government Friday for allegedly having leftist leanings.
The National Front for the Liberation of Angola, one of three competing guerrilla movements in the nation, has emerged in recent years as this Portuguese colony’s most powerful African force. It will probably have the biggest voice in deciding Angola’s eventual independence and in naming its new leaders. The organization, which is based in Kinshasa, Zaire, has outstripped its two socialist rivals in the number of men under arms, in the amount of valuable land occupied and in making helpful friends. The National Front delegation that reflected this greater effectiveness recently arrived in this capital city. Certainly better outfitted and apparently better organized than their rivals, the delegation’s political activists were backed up here by about 70 well‐armed and newly uniformed soldiers. Some 200 more soldiers are billeted just outside the city.
President Ford and his top advisers are under intensifying pressure to change their conservative, restrictive anti-inflation policies in the face of deepening recession. The pressures are both economic and political and they are starting to come from within as well as outside the administration.
Representative Morris Udall of Arizona became the first Democrat to open officially his candidacy for the presidency in 1976. He said that he would participate in the primary in New Hampshire, where he made the announcement, and other primaries. Mr. Udall, who is 52 years old and belongs to the liberal wing of his party, said his major Issues would be what he called the “three E’s — environment, economy, energy.” These, he said, would “dominate” his campaign and be the most important issues for the rest of the decade.
The American public’s pessimism over the economy continued to deepen despite the Ford Administration’s program to alleviate inflation and unemployment, a Gallup Poll found. In a November 8-11 nationwide survey, 72% said they expected the situation to get worse in the next six months and 71% believed there would be more, rather than fewer, persons out of work in their communities in the same period.
The U.S. Government took its first formal step tonight to intervene in the deadlocked national coal miners’ strike by ordering both sides to renew intensive bargaining with the help of federal mediators.
The scheduled discharge of the last 2,500 draftees makes the Army, “for all practical purposes,” an all-volunteer force for the first time since 1940. However, an Army spokesman said an undetermined number of draftees might have chosen to finish out their full two-year terms rather than accept early release. Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway said recruiting had been so successful that the service was reducing its December goal for new men to 8,100 from 14,100.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it had captured a 35‐year‐old man in California charged with one of the largest bank robberies in the history of the United States. Curtis Ray Michelson was charged with stealing $1,044,000 from the First National Bank of Reno, Nevada, last September 27. The FBI director, Clarence M. Kelley, said that the holdup was “believed to be the largest bank robbery in the history of the United States.” The suspect, an escaped Federal prisoner, had been scheduled to be placed on the list of 10 most wanted criminals’ next week.
The winner in Alaska’s tight gubernatorial race apparently was Republican Jay Hammond. He had 365 more votes than incumbent Democrat Governor William A. Egan after state canvassers completed the official tally. Certification of the results was announced by Lieutenant Governor H. A. G. (Red) Boucher. Governor Egan’s press secretary, Will Lawson, said the governor had not decided whether to ask for a recount. The vote difference was less than 0.5%, with Hammond receiving 45,483 votes to Egan’s 45,118. The chief executive is to be inaugurated December 2.
A new election was ordered for a Louisiana congressional seat because of irregularities in the original voting. State Dist. Judge Melvin A. Shortness ruled that a malfunctioning voting machine that did not register an undetermined number of votes could have deprived Democratic candidate Jeff LaCaze of sufficient votes to put him ahead of Republican Henson Moore in the state’s 6th District. Moore led by only 44 votes in unofficial returns from the November 5 election.
The lowest traffic toll forecast in the six years it has been making them for Thanksgiving was issued by the National Safety Council. The council predicted 525 to 625 fatalities for the holiday period, which will begin at 6 PM local time Wednesday and end at midnight Sunday. Higher costs of travel and enforcement of the 55 mph speed limit were factors in the projection, which included 23,000 to 27,000 disabling injuries. According to the council, 542 deaths and 23,000 injuries were recorded last year.
A group of scientists has concluded that a major accident at one of the country’s nuclear reactors could kill or make seriously ill more than 120,000 persons, 16 times the casualties estimated in a recent study financed by the Atomic Energy Commission. The new estimate of casualties was contained in the first detailed criticism of an extensive study by the A.E.C., and made public last August, which said that a reactor accident was highly unlikely and that the consequences of such an accident would be less serious than had been suggested in earlier studies by the commission.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas has continued an injunction halting work on two hotel-casinos on the Nevada side of South Lake Tahoe and stayed another order requiring California to post a $3.5 million bond. The ninth U.S. Court of Appeals ordered California on November 19 to post the bond within 10 days or the work-halt injunction would be dissolved. The bond would insure damages to the developers if California loses its fight to stop the hotel-casinos, estimated to cost $45 million and $40 million.
The Kanawha County School Board in Charleston, West Virginia, which has been a target of protesters for 12 weeks, has adopted guidelines for the selection of future textbooks in the state’s most populous public school system. But the guidelines do not apply to the books which started all the fuss and have already been purchased, only to new purchases.
In Lexington, Massachusetts, the historic Hancock–Clarke House was moved 100 yards (91 m) across the street to its original site in preparation for the United States Bicentennial.
Cornelius Ryan, whose narratives of World War II battles — “The Longest Day,” “The Last Battle” and, most recently, “A Bridge Too Far” — enthralled millions of readers here and in Europe, died at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. He was 54 years old.
The United Kingdom’s Skynet 2B communications satellite was launched from the United States and placed into geostationary orbit over Kenya. A last-chance effort to launch a British military communications satellite went off flawlessly from Cape Canaveral. The satellite, Skynet 2B, is designed to give the British their own space switchboard to transmit top secret military messages. A Skynet launching failed in 1970 when the space motor exploded. Another plunged to fiery destruction in January when its rocket placed it into an incorrect orbit. Skynet 2B has one more hurdle to clear today with the remote firing of a motor to park it in a stationary orbit. If this Skynet fails, British military authorities said it was doubtful that they could persuade the Ministry of Defense to spend any more money on the program, which has cost $50 million so far.
Alexis Argüello of Nicaragua knocks out Mexican defending champion Rubén Olivares in the 13th round at the Forum in Inglewood, California, to claim the WBA world featherweight boxing title.
Born:
Saku Koivu, Finnish National Team and NHL centre (Olympics, silver medal, 2006; bronze medals, 1994, 1998, 2010; NHL All-Star, 1998; Montreal Canadiens, Anaheim Ducks), in Turku, Finland.
Jamie Sharper, NFL linebacker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 35-Ravens, 2000; Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks), in Richmond, Virginia.
Tyrus McCloud, NFL linebacker (Baltimore Ravens), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Malik Rose, NBA power forward (NBA Champions-Spurs, 1999, 2003; Charlotte Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, New York Knicks, Oklahoma City Thunder), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Tora Suber, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting, Orlando Miracle), in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Cornelius Ryan, 54, Irish-born American writer and historian (“The Longest Day”, “A Bridge too Far”), of cancer.
Sol Wilson, 81, Polish-born American Expressionist painter.
[Ed: The IRA were terrorist scum. Period.]
[Ed: Pretty lady. The way the British presstitutes treated her was shitty. However much you hate reporters, it is not enough.]
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